Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: of non-functioning pituitary macroadenomas are associated with hyposecretion of the pituitary gland. In addition surgical therapy can lead to a partial or complete hypopituitarism. Data suggest that substitution of growth hormone can improve quality of life and reduce associated symptoms. However in many cases substitution is not started within the first 6–12 months after surgery. Therefore we intended to investigate if patients benefit from an early growth ...

Background: Bariatric surgery has shown to effectively reduce body weight and the prevalence of obesity associated comorbidities. However, especially data concerning diabetes is still conflicting. Also the benefit of surgical therapy varies strongly depending on individual patient characteristics.Methods: Therefore we intended to investigate a heterogeneous group of obese patients (n=215) undergoing bariatric surgery in terms of related comorbidit...