Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Acromegaly is a rare disease with multiple serious comorbidities. The aim of this study was to gather information on patients diagnosed with Acromegaly from 1955 through 2010.Materials and methods: Information on patients with pituitary adenomas diagnosed from 1950 has aldready been gathered and and imported to patient journals at the National University Hospital in Iceland. In this retrospective study information on patients diagnosed with Ac...

Introduction: Recent publications regarding primary aldosteronism (PA) have challenged the concept of PA being a rare disease. In 2007 a standardized protocol for diagnosing and treating PA was introduced in Iceland for patients suspected of having PA. Data from the Icelandic Heart Association suggests that 35–40% of the adult population (age 46–67) have hypertension. The aim of this study was to gather information about PA as a cause of hypertension at the referral ...

Introduction: Recent studies have found hypopituitarism (HP) to be a common complication of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). In Iceland most patients with moderate TBI and all patients with severe TBI and SAH are transferred to Landspitali University Hospital (LSH). The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of HP following TBI/SAH in Iceland, 3 and 12 months after the incidence.Methods: All adult patients with mode...

Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) can cause long-term morbidity and death. Studies indicate that this may partially be due to transient or chronic hypopituitarism (HP). Guidelines recommend screening for HP in moderate and severe TBI patients (TBIp), Glasgow coma score (GCS) 9–12 and <9 respectively. The aim of this study was to evaluate markers of severity and physiologic changes as predictive factors for HP following TBI and ...