Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Hyperprolactinemia might be related to weight gain, metabolic syndrome, and insulin resistance. The aim of this study was to evaluate that patients with hyperprolactinemia were higher prevalence of metabolic syndrome than civilian population.Methods: From 1st Jan. 1998 to 17th Nov. 2017, 950 patients newly diagnosed hyperprolactinemia in Pusan National University Hospital, Pusan, South Korea, were selected to enroll in a study conducted on hyp...

Objectives: Attempts have been made to identify markers for aggressive disease in papillary microcarcinomas (PMCs), but genetic alterations identified in PMCs have failed to distinguish tumors with high-risk features. Thus, we aimed to identify candidate markers associated with lateral node metastasis (N1b) in patients with PMC through a transcriptomic analysis.Methods: Bulk RNA sequencing was performed in 26 matched tumor and normal thyroid tissue sampl...