Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Research has demonstrated that knowledge about medications, diet, exercise, home glucose monitoring, foot care, and treatment modifications is necessary to effectively self-manage diabetes, and the assessment of diabetes-related knowledge is an important first step from which to individualize diabetes education programs and make evaluations of their effectiveness.Purpose: To assess the knowledge of diabetes mellitus (about the disease, its ...

Introduction: A key factor in the progressive increase in the prevalence of obesity is poor dietary habits. The treatment of obesity with regular diets often fail, so knowing the specific habits of these patients can be very useful to individualize treatment.Objective: Evaluate the dietary habits of subjects consulting for obesity in our clinic of Endocrinology and NutritionMaterials and methods: We conducted a survey of eating hab...

Background: Vitamin D deficiency is an important public health problem because of its great impact on bone metabolism and the possible implication in cardiovascular outcomes, diabetes, cancer and mortality. Cross-sectional studies have related vitamin D deficiency with the prevalence of diabetes but there are only a few prospective cohort studies on the incidence of type 2 diabetes.Objective: To investigate the relationship between levels of 25-hydroxyvi...

Introduction and objetives: There are few data in literature about the effects of rosuvastatin in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia in Spain. The objective of this study has been:1-to evaluate the efficacy and security of rosuvastatin in patients with familiar hypercholesterolemia2-to test the hypothesis that patients with diabetes have different response to treatment with rosuvastatin.Material and ...

Introduction: Patients with bariatric surgery require close monitoring because of possible metabolic complications. It has been published some cases of severe and persistent hypoglycemias resistant to diet and pharmacologic treatment being necessary a pancreatectomy. We present a case report of nesidioblastosis after gastric bypass that required subtotal pancreatectomy but despite this, hypoglycemias persisted. Before performing total pancreatectomy we placed a tube feeding in...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to evaluate effects on glycemic control, body weight and cardiovascular risk factors (BP, lipids and Epworth sleepiness scale) in diabetic patients with morbid obesity treated with exenatide.Material and methods: We studied consecutively 21 T2DM patients, all of them treated with metformin full dosage and insufficient metabolic control referred to our clinic for preoperative control of bariatric surgery. Twelve of ...

Introduction: The use of radioiodine is a common treatment for differentiated thyroid cancer. However, special care should be exercised in treating patients who are on hemodialysis, due to the renal elimination of the radionuclide, which implies several technical difficulties and safety concerns. We have previously described the procedure and the short-term outcome and safety in three patients (Jimenez et al, Thyroid 2001; 11(11):1031–1034). Our results showed that the ra...

Introduction: We study the calcitonin levels measurement in the washout of FNAB needles after sampling each thyroid nodule (FNAB-CT) as an approach to calcitonin normal value in them and distinguish of MTC and to correlate with serum CT (sCT) and cytology FNAB.Material & Methods: 109 consecutive subjects (mean age 53.7±13.4, range 18–85 yr, 79.8% females, 27.5% smokers, 18.3% autoimmune thyroid disease) initially no suspicious for MTC who u...

Introduction: Routine central lymph node dissection (CLND) in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is controversial. Selective biopsy of the sentinel lymph node (SLN) could improve the surgical approach, as negative cases would benefit from avoiding a more aggressive technique and in positive samples a more accurate staging would be obtained.Aim: To analyze the usefulness of SLN biopsy in the surgical treatment of PTC.Patients and Met...

Objective: Calculation of accurate insulin boluses is one of the major problems related to intensive insulin regimens. A bolus calculator (BC) incorporated into the insulin pump estimates the dose of insulin to be administered at the meal and makes calculation easier and more precise.The aim of the present study was to assess the efficacy of a BC on glycaemic control of patients with DM1 on CSII.Material and methods: We enrolled 20...