Endocrine Abstracts

Background: We aimed prospectively investigate the laboratory and electrocardiographic parameters (hearth rate, QRS, QT, QTc, Tpe, Tpe/QTc, arrhythmia prevalance) in patients with graves disease before and after antithyroid therapy.Methods: 71 patients (48 female, 23 male), age between 18–50 (mean ± s.d.: 36.48 ± 12.20) with GD were included into the study. Patients treated with antithyroid therapy (thionamids and/or surgical the...

Introduction: The criteria defining the threshold size of adrenal incidentaloma (AI) are >1 cm diameter. However, data about AI ≤1 cm diameter is scant. The aim of this study is to evaluate function of adrenal masses ≤1 cm and to compare them with adrenal masses >1 cm as well as to understand the possible utility of determining salivary cortisol in diagnosis of SCS in patients with AI.Method: The study included 137 consecutive patient...