Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: There are known biological differences between men and women in coronary heart disease. It is important to know these differences in order to avoid inequalities in prevention, diagnosis and treatment of this pathology.Methods: We designed a retrospective, descriptive study in which we included all diabetic patients admitted to the hospital with acute coronary syndrome in 2016. Demographic data and degree of control of risk factors were regi...

Introduction: The cause of primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) is a single adenoma in 85% of cases. Scintigraphy with technetium-sestamibi (MIBI) is the test of choice for localising adenomas in patients with PHPT, allowing minimally invasive surgery in most patients. Some articles recommend thyroid function supression to improve scintigraphy results.Methods: A prospective study was conducted in which 8 patients were included with diagnosis of PHPT and ne...

Objective: To assess improvement in glycemic control in those diabetic patients who have received structured education in diabetes in our Day Hospital.Methods: A retrospective observational study was carried out in which 42 diabetic patients who had attended to educational courses in 1 year were included, determining the age of the patient, type of Diabetes, score obtained in the questionnaires at the beginning and end of the course, as well as HbA1c bef...

Background: Medical gender transition is a personal and complex process that can have irreversible health consequences. Detransition is the process of stopping and/or reversing partially or totally and temporarily or permanently the social, legal and/or medical changes achieved during gender transition. The current prevalence of detransition is unknown, most likely underestimated.Aim: To determine the prevalence and describe the sociodemographic and heal...

Introduction: Evidence suggests that, for the same mean glucose level, protein glycation may be different and that this may have an impact on the occurrence of complications. We currently have GMI that estimates mean glucose measured with the FreeStyle Libre 2 and HbA1c determined in the laboratory.Objectives: To analyse the proportion of “rapid glycaemic” patients in our clinical setting (HbA1c-GMI>0.5) and to assess the prevalence of micr...

Introduction: Follicular Thyroid Carcinomas (FTCs) and Follicular Variant Papillary Thyroid Carcinomas (FVPTCs) may present absence of suspicious ultrasonography features more frequently than classic papillary carcinomas. Thus, some cases may be identified with the pattern of ‘low suspicion’ rather than intermediate or high suspicion defined in the American Thyroid Association (ATA) guidelines of 2015. These guidelines establish a size cutoff of 1.5 cm to recommend f...

Introduction: Familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia (FHH) has been classically characterized as an asymptomatic disease with mild hypercalcemia, hypocalciuria and inappropriately normal or high serum PTH concentration. The aim of our study is to assess the utility of genetic testing in patients with suspected FHH with atypical clinical manifestations, and the validity of classical biochemical parameters for the diagnosis.Description of methods: A retrospe...

Introduction and objectives: In the 4th Workshop on Primary Hyperparathyroidism, it is recommended to perform BMD by DXA of third radius as well as lumbar spine and hip DXA in the initial assessment and follow up of patients with primary hyperparathyroidism. This test is not available in many centers, which means that only T Score values of the lumbar spine and hip are used to certify the absence of osteoporosis in asymptomatic patients wich conservative management is...

Introduction and objectives: Having frequent hypoglycaemias can enable the appareance of severe and unnoticed hypoglycaemias, as well as favouring vascular damage in these patients. Our objective is to evaluate de incidende of severe hypoglycaemias (SH) in patients with Diabetes Mellitus type 1 and the reduction of perceived hypoglycaemias.Material and methods: A prospective study was conducted. Patients attending to their Endocrinology appointments betw...

Glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1c) is considered the Gold Standard parameter for evaluating long-term glycemic control in individuals with Diabetes Mellitus (DM). The presence of hemoglobin variants or others conditions that modify its glycosylation, can affect the veracity of its measurement. The detection of these hemoglobinopathies and his knowledge by the clinicians is very important for the correct diagnosis and follow-up. We present the case of a patient who presented a he...