Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Growth hormone (GH) has multiple metabolic effects in adulthood, pointing to the need of identify those patients who would benefit of GH treatment after achievement of final height.Objective: To assess GH secretion, bone mineral density (BMD) and metabolic profile in patients with childhood-onset GH deficiency (GHD) after completion of recombinant GH (rGH) therapy for linear growth.Methodology: One hundred eleven pati...

IntroductionInadequately managed papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) patients result in potentially higher fatal outcomes due to a lack of sufficient prognostic data/markers, inadequate periodic individualized follow-up risk assessments and/or insufficient initial treatment. MiR-146b, -21, -221, -222, -181b are potential biomarkers for risk stratification of PTC.AimThe aim of our study was to analyze expression...