Endocrine Abstracts

Purpose: This retrospective study is evaluated the efficacy of three doses of I-131 (1110 MBq vs 3700 MBq vs 5550 MBq) in differentiated thyroid carcinoma patients with cut-off serum thyroglobulin (TG) level after two weeks of thyroid hormone withdrawal for postoperative thyroid remnant ablation.Methods: A total of 97 patients with differentiated thyroid cancer treated with total thyroidectomy and radioactive iodine (RAI) therapy...

A 41-year-old woman presented to her optician 3 weeks post-partum with frontal headaches and visual blurring. On examination, a bitemporal hemianopia was found.She had previously been under our care with autoimmune hypothyroidism diagnosed 3 years earlier on the basis of symptoms and confirmatory biochemistry – TSH 10.9 mU/l, T4 10.6 pmol/l, TPO 66 (<50). This had been adequately replaced throughout pregnancy, which had been uneventful until the...

Objectives: We investigated cardiovascular and all-cause mortality in patients who underwent gastrectomies for early gastric cancer (EGC), and analyzed the changes in metabolic parameters in these patients after surgery.Background: Bariatric surgery, including gastric banding and gastric bypass, effectively induces weight loss and resolves cardiovascular comorbidities in obese patients.Methods: 2477 patients who underwent gastrecto...

Aims: Central obesity is associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. It has been proposed that increased lipid accumulation in vascular tissue and the consequent increase in oxidative stress may be a missing link between obesity and atherosclerosis. The peroxisome proliferators-activated receptor (PPAR)-γ coactivator 1-α (PGC-1α) is a transcriptional coactivator playing an important role in energy metabolism. PGC-1α is present in vascu...

Objective: To evaluate the clinical significance of AMH in predicting IVF outcomes among patients over age 40 undergoing the first IVF cycle.Design and methods: This is a retrospective study. Patients aged 40 or older who underwent their first IVF cycle from January 2013 to September 2014 in CHA Gangnam fertility center were included (n=201). All patients received gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonist protocol, with a starting dose of...

Introdcution: The number of patients who undergo transoral thyroidectomy has increased with the recent progress in thyroid surgery techniques and increasing number of patients concerned about cosmetic effects. This study aimed to compare transoral endoscopic thyroidectomy survey results with those of open thyroidectomy and to determine whether any differences existed between the two groups.Methods: One hundred patients who underwent thyroidectomy perform...

The four major hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are preeclampsia/eclampsia/HELLP syndrome, gestational hypertension, chronic hypertension and pre-eclampsia superimposed on chronic hypertension. The prevalence of hypertension in pregnancy has been reported to be around 6%. The commonest aetiology was found to be gestational hypertension which made up 40% of all cases. To our knowledge, secondary causes of hypertension in pregnancy has never been well described. We present a ...

Introduction: Thyroid isthmus has lack of normal parenchyma, and it connects both of thyroid lobes with lymphatic drainage. It is known that isthmic papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) presents frequent extrathyroidal extensions (ETE), multifocality and lymph node involvement. Therefore, many surgeons prefer total thyroidectomy and central compartment neck dissection (CCND) for the radical treatment of PTC located in thyroid isthmus. The purpose of this study is to figure out the c...

Background: Success of Graves’ orbitopathy (GO) immunosuppression treatment is highly variable; patients relapse and a debilitating residual disease burden often remains with current therapies. This study describes the outcomes of immunosuppression in a multi-ethnic GO cohort treated in accordance with pre-2021 European Group on GO (EUGOGO) guidelines with first-line intravenous-methylprednisolone (IVMP). This study aims: (1) To evaluate the effect of first-line and addit...

Introduction: Tc99m-Sestamibi+I-123 subtraction using planar and SPECT-CT (SPECT-CT 99mTc-MIBI parathyroid) is commonly used to investigate primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT). We previously reported the sensitivity and positive predictive value of 4D CT parathyroid as the second line investigation in patients with non-diagnostic SPECT-CT 99mTc-MIBI parathyroid (https://www.endocrine-abstrac...