Endocrine Abstracts

Primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) belongs to the most common endocrine disorders. It is increasingly reported in patients without any symptoms and hypercalcemia. In the 3rd international workshop on asymptomatic PHPT (Orlando 2008) the normocalcemic PHPT was recognised as a stand-alone entity that needs more attention.Aim: The purpose of this study is to analyse data from patients with normocalcemic asymptomatic PHPT and to create an effective source da...

Primary hyperthyroidism (PHPT) is one of the diseases which are usually diagnosed in asymptomatic period nowadays. Even though considerable success was achieved, in some cases PHPT is not found out before complications were developed. A prospective study focuses on diagnostics and therapy of PHPT has been in progress at two tertiary centers of endocrinology in the Czech Republic since January 1st, 2007, with early diagnosis of PHPT being one of its aims. In a 6-year period, th...

Best of all, the primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) should already be disclosed in the asymptomatic stage. The authors of this contribution are participating in a longitudinal study, which is focused on several aspects of asymptomatic PHPT. The study has been in progress in the Czech Republic at the two tertiary endocrinology centers. Previously we had attempted to verify the assumption that the presence of a chronic disease results in more frequent contact of the patient with...

Acromegaly is usually diagnosed after several years of duration. The multimodal therapy – surgery, radiotherpy, pharmacotherapy – is necessary in the majority of patients. Register of sellar tumors (RESET) collecting data of patients from eight tertiary centers in the Czech and Slovak Republics since the year 2000 was established in 2008.Aim of analysis: Evaluation of diagnostics of acromegaly and effectiveness of its treatment in a daily pract...