Endocrine Abstracts

IntroductionResponse to Therapy, according to ATA’s dynamic classification, provides a description of the clinical situation in patients with thyroid cancer (TC) a year or more after treatment. It gives us more accurate information than the obtained at diagnosis by static staging systems as AJCC and ATA risk system.ObjetivesTo analyse the association between some factors collected at diagnosis and the ty...

Introduction Institutional campaigns, and some health care professionals, encourage the elderly to drink large quantities of fluids, regardless of their level of thirst. Furthermore, SIADH-inducing medications can often cause dryness of mouth. Thus, patients when diagnosed with SIADH can have a high fluid intake (FI), drinking in the absence of thirst. However, fluid restriction, considered the first step in therapy of mild/moderate SIADH hyponatremia, h...

IntroductionThe number of lymph node metastasis (NM) and the existence of extranodal extensión (ExEx) are not included among prognosis variables used in the most common staging systems for differentiated thyroid cancer as AJCC and ATA risk systems.ObjectiveIn patients with NM at diagnosis, to analyze the association between the number of NM and the presence of ExEx with response to therapy.<p class="...