Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Cushing’s disease (CD) is caused by pituitary corticotrophin (ACTH)-secreting tumours. Our aim is to show our experience in a third level hospital attending a 500 000 based population area from 1990 to now.Methods: We review retrospectively the medical reports of all patients diagnosed as CD from 1990 by a data collection protocol. We reject the reports without enough or inadequate information. We present results by using descriptive stat...

Introduction: Many studies have shown that cigarette smoking exerts multiple effects on the thyroid gland. Smoking seems to induce changes in thyroid function tests, like a left-shift in serum TSH level that is more apparent in iodine-deficient subjects and increase in thyroid hormones. We describe the effect of an intensive thyroxine intravenous treatment in severe hypothyroid patients and the results depending on their smoking status.Material and metho...