Endocrine Abstracts

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the dispatch of significant efforts to identify prognostic factors development of critical conditions and death. Elderly age, cardiovascular disease (CVD), blood sugar diabetes, chronic lung disease, arterial hypertension was associated with an increased risk of death with COVID-19. Metabolic syndrome is a significant comorbid pathology, which increases the risk of developing life-threatening complications and unfavorable outcome of the coronav...

Introduction: The World Health Organization has recognized a new coronavirus infection as a pandemic1. As of early October 2020, the number of infected people worldwide amounted to more than 37 million2. According to WHO data, the structure of morbidity of new coronavirus infection is dominated by elderly people and patients with comorbidities, among which the most frequent are diseases of the cardiovascular system, diabetes mellitus (DM), obesity, chroni...

Relevance: Prolactinoma is an adenoma of the pituitary gland with the production and secretion of prolactin (PRL) in varying degrees, almost always benign, but, nevertheless, often clinically significant and causing difficulties in treatment. Often prolactinomas are classified according to size as microadenomas (less than 10 mm in diameter) or macroadenomas (more than 10 mm in diameter). More than 90% of prolactinomas are small, intrasellar tumors that rarely increase in size....