Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Adrenal incidentalomas (AIs) are increasingly detected due to the widespread use of abdominal imaging for diagnostic purposes. AIs are usually benign non-functioning adenomas but few prospective studies exist regarding their evolution.The aim of this study was to investigate the morphological and hormonal changes of AIs in a cohort of patients with long-term follow-up.Materials and methods: This was a prospective obse...

Introduction: Thyroid dysfunction and thyroid autoimmunity (TAI) have been associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes for both the mother and the fetus. The aim of this study was to describe fetal growth parameters of pregnancies complicated with thyroid diseases/TAI and to construct predictive models for their outcome.Methods: The study included 196 consecutive singleton pregnancies in women with thyroid diseases, during the period 2007–2010. A coh...