Endocrine Abstracts

Bariatric surgery is increasingly deployed world-wide in patients with significant weight excess in order to mitigate the deleterious effects of associated metabolic and cardiovascular comorbidities. Pre-operative evaluation systematically investigates for possible causes of secondary obesity due to endocrine pathologies. In our hospital a standard blood test panel comprising the anterior hypophysis, the adrenal and the thyroid is requested as well as an endocrinological evalu...