Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Personal continuous glucose monitoring (pCGM) with interstitial fluid glucose sensing is rapidly becoming the standard of care for real-time, intensive insulin therapy of diabetes. We report our experience of glycemic control in patients in an academic setting using minimally invasive pCGM with continuous s.c. insulin infusion (CSII, or insulin pump) vs CSII alone.Methods: Over a two-year period, we reviewed all patients treated with insulin p...

Aim: To describe 2 cases of immune-mediated hypophysitis due to the therapeutic use of Ipilimumab, a cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 (CTLA4)-blocking antibody.Case 1: A 62 year-old male with history of metastatic melanoma was started on Ipilimumab. After finishing the 4th at 2 months he complained of weakness, fatigue, and fever, prescribed ciprofloxacin and prednisone 20 mg daily, and felt better. 2 days later he was hospitalized with weakness, BP 86/6...

Introduction: Liraglutide exerts cardio-protective effects beyond of those on glucose metabolism, affecting several cardio-metabolic parameters, such as subclinical atherosclerosis. However, it is not known if those effects differ in the long-term between pre-elderly and elderly subjects with type-2 diabetes (T2DM).Methods: We included 135 subjects with T2DM divided in 2 groups: i) 71 pre-elderly subjects (46 men and 25 women, 55±7 years), and ii) 6...