Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: In the last decades, primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) has changed in its clinical presentation, being mostly asymptomatic in western countries; in Romania is still common to see various clinical presentations.Objective: To characterize a retrospective cohort of PHPT Romanian patients.Patients and methods: 271 patients were included: 88% women, ratio F/M 7.5/1, mean age 60.6±12 yrs (15–83), mean BMI 26.3&#1...

Introduction: The reccurence rate after successful neurosurgery for patients with Cushing’s disease (CD) varies between 10% and 65%. It is shown earlier that some features are associated with the probability of recurrence, yet no rules were elaborated how to analyse the set of variables.Materials and methods: The retrospective study was based on 219 cases of CD (32 men, 187 women) with a disease duration ranged from 4 months to 22 years, who underwe...

Introduction: It is supposed that primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT) during pregnancy is associated with significant maternal and fetal risks as high as 67 and 80%, respectively. The very few case reports published referred mainly to unrecognized pHPT or diagnosed during pregnancy. We report the case of a woman with known asymptomatic pHPT who became pregnant.Case-report: A woman, 29 years, was diagnosed with pHPT a year before becoming pregnant; her bio...

It is known that disoaders of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal system and excess glucocorticoids in Cushing’s disease (CD) can significantly affect various organs and systems, in particular, the secretion of pituitary hormones. However, in the literature there is practically no work on the assessment of the state of tropic hormones and hormones of the peripheral glands in the early postoperative period after transsphenoidal adenomectomy. The aim of this study was to ass...

Abstract: Cushing’s disease (CD) is the heavy disease of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis. The cause of the disease is pituitary adenoma (corticotropinoma). Hypersecretion of ACTH by a pituitary adenoma leads to increased secretion of cortisol by the adrenal cortex and the development of total endogenous hypercortisolism. The gold standard treatment for this disease is surgical removal of corticotropinoma. However, adenomectomy is not effective in all cas...

Introduction: Somatotropinomas are typically recognized when GH excessively secretion causes acromegaly. «Silent» somatotroph adenomas (immunohistochemical evidence of GH excess without biochemical or clinical evidence) and «clinically silent» somatotroph adenomas (immunohistochemical and biochemical evidence without clinical evidence) have occasionally been reported. The relative frequency of each presentation is unknown.<p class="abst...

Reports of pregnancy in acromegalic women are uncommon.Case 1: Patient K., 25-year-old., 01/04/2008 – transsphenoidal adenomectomy in connection with active acromegaly (GH/OGTT – 47.2–64.0–38.0–29.6–28.7 ng/ml; macroadenoma 19×14×12 mm with compression of optic chiasm). Postoperative remission of the disease, recovery of menstrual function without additional therapy. At the end of August 2008 the patient became pre...

Central diabetes insipidus (CDI) is a common complication after transsphenoidal treatment for tumors of the sellar region and may exhibit different patterns: transient, permanent or triphasic.The aim of our study was to determine the incidence and course of the CDI and to characterize the factors associated with resolution of this disease.The incidence of CDI was based on records of 318 patients who underwent transsphenoidal surger...

In ESC for the period since October 2004 till October 2006 were operated 69 patients with acromegaly. Men were 22 (32%), women – 47 (68%). Age of patients changed from 24 till 68 (middle – 47).All patients were separated into 2 groups: surgery (group 1) and combination treatment (group 2), which consist of surgery and somatostatin analogues therapy before and after surgery.In most cases were macroadenomas, only 5 patients...

Objective: The search for the predictors of the Cushing’s disease (CD) recurrence after surgical treatment among the following parameters - gender, age, adenoma size, preoperative levels of ACTH (morning) and cortisol (evening) in the blood, postoperative levels of ACTH (morning) and cortisol (morning) in the blood.Material and methods: A retro- and prospective monocenter study of treatment outcomes in 181 patients with confirmed diagnosis of Cushin...