Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Measuring thyroid stimulating hormone levels alone may be insufficient to appropriately evaluate thyroid function. Reduced thyroid stimulating hormone levels associated to normal/reduced FT4 levels should prompt investigation of pituitary function.Case: A 31-year-old man underwent biochemistry and thyroid function assessment for asthenia. He developed thyrotoxicosis due to painless thyroiditis with. positive.antithyroid antibodies. ...

Introduction: The prevalence of diabetes mellitus increases with age in all population. With the demographic transition and population aging, diabetes mellitus will be a major public health problem in all countries.Aims: to study the specific management of diabetes in very old subjects with multiple co morbidities and functional disabilities.Patients and Methods: We described a population of 199 diabetic patients aged 80 years and ...

Introduction: Patients with Parkinson’s disease on pharmacological treatment frequently loose weight but regain weight after subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (SNBS). This is, at least in part, due to an increase in resting energy expenditure (Perlemoine et al., Br J Nutrition 2005; 93). As SNBS electrodes are located close to the hypothalamic centre regulating food intake, we investigated whether ghrelin levels would vary with SNBS and/or L-DOPA tr...