Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Hypophysary aneurysms are rare, they account for 1% to 2% of all intracranial aneurysms (1) and can be mistaken for pituitary adenomas, since they can have similar symptoms and even radiological signs especially if it’s an aneurysm completely thrombosed as angiography will show only avascular mass (2).Clinical case: A 84 year old female with past medical history of hypertension, dyslipidemia and depressive disorder, presents to emergen...

Introduction: The NETTER 1 trial resulted in markedly longer progression-free survival (PFS), with preliminary evidence of an overall survival benefit. We report the results of PFS and safety of (177Lu)-DOTATATE in patients treated in our hospital between 2014 and 2016.Methods: Transversal and descriptive study of seven patients with advanced, progressive, somatostatin receptor-positive tumors who had received previous treatments. All of them were treate...

Introduction: Episodes of poorly controlled diabetes (DM) are one of the most frequent medical complications during hospitalization in the elderly population.Objectives: To analyze the prevalence of episodes of diabetic decompensation in patients admitted in Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology (OST) area.Material and methods: Descriptive analysis of patients admitted to OST Service who presented abnormally high or decreased blood g...

Introduction: Episodes of poorly controlled diabetes (DM) are one of the most frequent medical complications during hospitalization in the elderly population.Objetives: To analyze the prevalence of episodes of diabetic decompensation in patients admitted to the area of Vascular Surgery and Angiology (VS).Material and methods: Descriptive analysis of patients admitted to the VS Service who presented abnormally high or decreased bloo...

Introduction: Esthesioneuroblastoma is an uncommon malignant neoplasm with an average 5-year survival rate of about 45%. Ectopic ACTH syndrome due to esthesioneuroblastoma is extremely rare and there have been very few cases reported.Case report: A 54-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with symptoms of leg edema and general fatigue of one month’s duration. Physical examination showed moon facies and edema on her lower extremities bilaterall...

Introduction: Hypoglucemia is one of the most common endocrine symptoms and supposes a challenging in endocrine clinical practise. In most cases, are produced in relation with diabetes (drugs and diet). In other cases, there was an endogenous insulin production which cause the symptoms.Clinical report: A 58-year-old was attended in the Emergency Department with episodes of lightheadedness, diaphoresis, palpitation, tremulousness for month duration. In th...

Background: Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) biopsies are the cornerstone of preoperative evaluation of thyroid nodules, but FNA diagnostic performance has varied across different studies. We conducted a study to evaluate the effectiveness of ultrasound guided FNA in the thyroid nodule and to review the correlation between cytopathology and histopathology.Methods: Prospective FNAs were collected from 332 patients who underwent thyroid surgery between 2008 an...

Objective: Male hypogonadism is common in the elderly and has been associated with increased risk of mortality. Our objective has been to assess the prevalence of primary and central hypogonadism in elderly male patients admitted to the hospital because of acute illness. We also evaluated the relationships between gonadal dysfunction and in-hospital mortality.Patients and methods: 150 male patients, aged ≥65 years, admitted during 2010 and 2011 in ...

Introduction: According to the latest recommendations, monitoring protocol for adrenal incidentalomas includes: hormonal determinations annually for 4 years and imaging at 6, 12 and 24 months. The objectives of this study are: i) to define the clinical features, natural history and clinical management of adrenal incidentaloma in our area, ii) to evaluate the performance of the current monitoring protocol.Methods: Retrospective study including patients di...

Objectives: i) To determine the prevalence of major comorbidities of morbid obese, ii) to evaluate the gastric bypass effect on this comorbidities, on the 10 years estimated cardiovascular risk and iii) To assess the impact of bariatric surgery on the quality of life in these patients.Methods: Cohort study with intrasubject measures (before–after) in a sample of patients with morbid obesity who underwent gastric bypass. Demographic characteristics, ...