Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Patients with acromegaly have an increased mortality, mainly due to cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. Sleep apnea is related to hypertension, stroke and cardiovascular diseases and is reported to occur in 11–30% of acromegaly patients, according to retrospective studies based on diagnostic ICD-codes. However, in smaller prospective studies sleep apnea is found in about 70% of patients with active acromegaly and 40% after biochemical control. This diff...

Background: The Swedish Pituitary Register (SPR) is a national quality register founded in 1991 by the Swedish Pituitary Group and it provides important data in the continuous quality assessment and improvement work within the Swedish health care system.The Swedish Pituitary Register Nursing Group (SPRNG) was formed by nurses at the University Hospitals, working with the register, in 2011.Purpose: To increase the coverage rate and ...

Background: Previously, the endocrine nurses in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland have not been organized. As Endocrine nursing is specialized and no education for a specialist competence in endocrinology is available there is a need for a collaboration to improve the Nordic endocrine nursing.Purpose: The purpose of the Nordic network for endocrine nurses (NNEN) is to enhance the Nordic endocrine nurse knowledge and skills, and also work for a...

Background: The Swedish Pituitary Registry is a national quality registry founded in 1991 by the Swedish Pituitary Group.A total of 89 such national quality registries exist in Sweden (2011) that provide important data in the continuous quality assessment and improvement work within the Swedish health care system.In 2011, a nurse network was started for nurses working with the registry.Purpose: The purpose of...

Background: Subtle symptoms such as fatigue, weight gain and depression are commonly present for years in patients with pituitary adenoma (PA) before the diagnosis is made. A delayed diagnosis with risk of increased morbidity and mortality may be due to differences between patient-reported symptoms and symptoms reported in the patient’s medical record.Aim: To estimate diagnostic delay and investigate the concordance between patient-reported symptoms...