Endocrine Abstracts

The ‘European Young Endocrine Scientists’ (EYES) founded in 2011, is a committee under the patronage of the European Society of Endocrinology (ESE). The primary goal of this committee is to increase the mutual exchange of ideas and knowledge between early career endocrinologists across Europe, in both basic and clinical research. EYES enables young endocrinologists from all ESE member societies to actively contribute to all aspects of the society’s activities, e...

Introduction: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is anxious disorder that occurs following exposure to trauma. In the last two decades, numerous studies showed that dysregulation of hipothalamo–pituitary–adrenal axis (HPAA) is a core feature of the PTSD. Still, results are heterogeneous and often conflicted with one another. Therefore, we conducted strictly controlled study in order to characterize relationship between ACTH and cortisol secretion in patients with c...

Gaucher disease (GD) is autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder caused by the deficiency of glucocerebrosidase with consequent massive acumulation of lipid-laden macrophages in various tissues. Estimated life expectancy is about 9 years shorter than for the reference population. Mortality due to macrovascular diseases is higher, and probably associated with metabolic abnormalities found in GD type 1 patients, including decreases in serum adiponectin levels. Because adip...

Introduction: Several population-based studies have shown that hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance could be an independent predictive factor for development of coronary artery disease (CAD).Aim: The aim of this cross-sectional study was to analyze insulin secretion in patients with proven coronary artery disease.Methods: We have analyzed 151 consecutive patients (35–79 years old, men 68%, women 32%) referred for coronary a...

Introduction and aim: Obesity epidemic contributes to the increasing prevalence of high blood sugar, high blood pressure, and dyslipidemia, which are all known risk factors for coronary artery disease (CAD). Metabolic syndrome (MS) describes the common clinical finding wherein component CAD risk factors cluster within a single patient. Since obesity shares common clinical characteristics with both metabolic syndrome (MS) and Cushing’s syndrome it is speculated about obeso...

Somatostatinomas are rare neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas and small intestine that can occur sporadically or in a syndromic form. Duodenal somatostatinomas are often associated with neurofibromatosis type1 (NF1). Their presenting features are mostly related to local effects of the tumor mass rather than functional clinical syndrome. Nesidioblastosis is extremely rare cause of persistant hyperinsulinemic hypoglycaemia in adults.We present a case of ...

A 25-year-old female, referred because of left hemianopsy, weight gain, fatigue, muscle weakness, and secondary amenorrhea. Physical examination revealed overt Cushingoid features and left temporal hemianopsy. Previously the diagnosis of pituitary macroadenoma (MRI) with suprasellar, infrasellar, and right parasellar propagation was made in regional hospital. Laboratory results showed moderate hypercalcemia with hypophosphatemia and hypercalciuria with inappropriately normal P...

Objectives: Besides well known increased adrenal androgen production, an enhanced peripheral cortisol metabolism was also observed in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). This could induce a compensatory rise of ACTH secretion, tending to maintain normal plasma cortisol concentration at the expense of adrenal androgen excess. On the other hand, obesity is associated with a hyperactivity of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis and impaired androgen balance. In t...

Objectives: It is well known that polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) can promote metabolic syndrome (MetSy) and consequently cardiovascular diseases (CVD). In this study we compared indices of MetSy and 10-year cardiovascular risk (CVR10) based on Framingham risk scoring system (FRSS) in young obese PCOS women and healthy obese controls.Methods: We studied 25 obese women with PCOS (mean age: 29.55±4.6 years, mean BMI: 31.8±4.4 kg/m<sup...

Neuroendocrine lung tumors represent approximately 20% of all lung tumors. They range from low-grade well-differentiated NETs and well-differentiated neuroendocrine carcinomas (typical and atypical carcinoids) to aggressive poorly differentiated small-cell and large-cell neuroendocrine carcinomas. They can develop different clinical syndromes due to ectopic hormone secretion.We analyzed 178 patients with neuroendocrine tumors (age range: 17–79 years...