Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: It is established practice to localise parathyroid lesions preoperatively using ultrasound (US) and sestaMIBI (MIBI). Whilst these imaging techniques have good sensitivity/specify, there are patients in which imaging does not localise a parathyroid lesion. 11C-Methionine PET (MET PET) is an imaging modality where 11C-methionine, a radioactive tracer, is taken up at sites of protein/peptide synthesis and has been demonstrated to be effective ...

Hyperthyroidism is common and in iodine-sufficient parts of the world the prevalence of overt hyperthyroidism is estimated to be 0.2% to 1.3%. The treatment options include antithyroid medication (ATD), thyroid surgery, or Radioactive iodine (RAI). The latter is increasingly used as a first line definitive treatment for hyperthyroidism. We reviewed the outcomes of patients who received RAI at our tertiary nuclear medicine department over a 4-year period (May 2015 to Dec 2019) ...