Searchable abstracts of presentations at key conferences in endocrinology

ea0081ep185 | Calcium and Bone | ECE2022

Evaluation of response to alendronate treatment on osteoporosis using cathepsin K and other biomarkers

Novac Roxana , Costin-Ioan Popescu , Valentin-Adrian Cotirlet

Background: Osteoporosis has been an excruciating disease for many years now. Although various treatments are available, there is an unmet need for disease prognosis, early disease diagnosis and prediction of treatment efficacy. New biomarkers are crucial for the diagnosis or prognosis of a disease as well as for monitoring treatment efficacy and improve decision making. Cathepsin K is a cysteine protease that cleaves collagen type I, the major type of collagen found in bone, ...

ea0099ep489 | Thyroid | ECE2024

Strange association of graves, hashimoto and papillary thyroid carcinoma

Roxana Novac Elena , Cristian Velicescu , Valentin Adrian Cotirlet

We present the case of a 32 yeas old male, diagnosed 7 years ago with Basedow disease, with numerous recidives which needed anti-thyroid medication, with poor response (hypo to hyper-thyroid status, with high variations of TSH and FT4) whom after a period of remission (8 months, no treatment) came in for a polymorphic symptomatology sugestive for hyperthyroidism. The hyperthyroid state was confirmed he had high TrAb ()31 UI/ml vs <1.75 UI/ml)- and we need to mention that o...