Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Adrenal incidentalomas (AI) are mostly benign and non secretory, but some are malignant. Current diagnostic and management algorithms are not fail safe when assessing malignant potential, although functional status is much easier to assess. We present a subject with multiple comorbidities whose AI was a very rare adrenal leiomyosarcoma (AL)Case presentation: A 40-year-old woman with SLE and the antiphospholid syndrome on lifelong warfarin t...

Objective: We studied the prevalence of endocrine dysfunction in subjects with idiopathic Parkinson’s disease (IPD) on newer dopaminergic agents (DA). DA are used in endocrine hypersecretory states in small doses and we hypothesized that endocrine dysfunction was likely in IPD where DA was used in comparatively much higher dosage.Patients and methods: 25 subjects with IPD on DA for were recruited to this cross-sectional study. We measured IGF1, prol...