Endocrine Abstracts

Objectives: Evaluate the benefit of postsurgical radioactive iodine (RAI) in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) at low to intermediate risk of recurrent disease in whom not routinary use of RAI is recommendedMethods: We retrospectively evaluated 1316 patients with DTC diagnosed between 2009-2015. ATA low (LR) and intermediate (IR) risk were included in the study (PTC: tumor size > 1 cm, microscopic extrathyroidal invasion, <5 micro...

Background: Graves’ ophthalmopathy (GO) is an autoimmune disease that affects particularly the retrobulbar soft tissues and represents the most common extrathyroidal manifestation of Graves’ disease (GD). Some studies suggest that GO in newly diagnosed patients in recent years has a trend towards a less severe clinical presentation, moreover we have no studies that focus the trend of clinical presentation of GO in the last decade on the population of our area.<p ...

Objective: Clarify mechanisms determining thyroid homeostasis during pregnancy at hypothalamic-pituitary level.Methods: Retrospective analysis of 251 pregnant women. 220/251 euthyroid without thyroxine therapy (Group 1), 31/251 thyroidectomized under thyroxine replacement therapy (Group 2). Patients under thyroxine replacement therapy with a TSH between 0.4 and 4.0 were included in the study. Patients with combined T3/T4 therapy were excluded.<p clas...

Background: The 2022 WHO Classification of Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Tumors has introduced, as other neuroendocrine neoplasms, new pathological features to classify medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) in low/high grade. However, whether it can be reliable in clinical practice should be confirm by further studies.Aim: To verify the predictive value of the 2022 WHO grading system in patients with MTC.Materials and Methods: Tumor tis...

Background: Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) are modern antineoplastic molecules widely used in the medical treatment of many cancers including iodine refractory differentiated thyroid carcer (DTC) and advanced medullary thyroid cancer (MTC). In patients with thyroid gland, TKIs frequently cause a destructive and/or autoimmune thyroiditis with consequent hypothyroidism. However, authors have reported unexpected TSH increase or hypothyroidism even in patients with total thyroi...