Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Medication Adherence (MA) is the extent to which patients follow medical instructions. Poor MA is frequently encountered in the majority of chronic diseases, including diabetes. The aim of our study was to evaluate MA in patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).Patients and methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study over a period of 2 months, including patients with poorly controlled T2DM, followed at the endocrino...

Introduction: Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) represents 3–10% of all thyroid cancer. The presence of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (mPTC) in patients undergoing thyroidectomy for multinodular goiter has been reported as 3–7%.The occurrence of multiple thyroid cancers of different origin in one individual patient is a rare event. We report the case of synchronous papillary and medullary thyroid cancer developed in heterogynous recurrent ...