Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The use of immunotherapy in oncology patients is increasing and is likely to continue to increase in the future. It is widely known that therapies have endocrinological side effects which can be serious, but maybe are also useful indicators to judge a response to the treatment. Presently, we do have not enough information regarding these side effects and their evolution.Materials and methods: Observational and retrospective study of 162 onc...

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness and security of bariatric surgery in metabolically healthy obese (MHO).Methods: A retrospective study of a cohort of all obese patients who underwent to bariatric surgery with a minimum two-year follow-up. Databases of all demographic, anthropometric and metabolic characteristics have been collected since 2007. Patients undergoing two surgeries were excluded. We defined as MHO patients those without diagnosis of d...