Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The role of external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) as primary or as adjuvant therapy in the non-undifferentiated thyroid cancer (NUTC) is controversial. Most published data refer to retrospective case series. Therefore, little is known about the correlation between tumor markers and radiologic measurements of tumor response.Objectives: The study aimed to analyze the kinetics of tumor markers and radiologic measurement of tumor response after EBR...

Patients with impaired glucose metabolism, either prediabetes (preD) or type 2 Diabetes (T2D), and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) have a higher prevalence of cardiovascular events. Recent studies have shown a relationship between epicardial fat and myocardial ischemia.Objective: To determine whether hepatic fibrosis assessed by liver elastography (LE) or Fibrosis-4 (FIB-4) score correlates with epicardial fat volume quantified by computed tomo...