Endocrine Abstracts

The prevalence of Metabolic Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) is approximately 55% in patients with Type 2 diabetes (T2DM). The EASL-EASD-EASO guidelines recommend screening patients with T2DM for MASLD. Fibrosis-4 Index (FIB-4) is a simple tool used to screen for MASLD in T2DM. FIB-4 scores are characterised as; low (<1.3), moderate (1.3 – 2.67) or high risk (>2.67). The aim of the audit was to screen a consecutive number of patients attending the out-pa...

Limited data are available on the effect of transsphenoidal surgery using the endoscopic method on pituitary function. In this preliminary report we retrospectively evaluated the frequency of pituitary failure and recovery in a population of patients who underwent this procedure over a 12 months period. 42 (21 women) consecutive adult patients were included. 29 patients had non-secretory pituitary neuroendocrine tumours, the rest had secretory tumours and other non-adenomatous...