Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Although inpatients hyperglycemia is a current uneasiness among the medical community, its prevalence in Portugal in unknown. We aim to identify ‘Stress hyperglycemia’ and ‘New onset diabetes’ cases in inpatients in a district hospital.Methods: We evaluated inpatients from Internal Medicine (IM), General Surgery (GS), Orthopedics and Traumatology (OT) and Stoke Unit (SU) departments, admitted from the emergency departmen...

Introduction: The diagnosis of Cushing’s syndrome is often challenging considering that none of the used laboratory tests has an ideal diagnostic accuracy. The complexity of the diagnosis increases in cyclic disorder, which is characterized by repeated episodes of cortisol excess followed by periods of normal cortisol secretion.Case report: A 32-year-old woman with history of arterial hypertension and obesity presented with weight gain, hirsutism, a...