Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Clinical experience with neuroendocrine tumours (NET) is difficult to acquire because they are rare and heterogeneous. The impact of recently published guidelines on diagnosis and therapy of NET is not known. The German NET-Registry offers a unique possibility to analyse data on diagnostic/therapeutic performance in a wide range of institutions. This study posed three questions: who provides the care for patients with NET; do the diagnostic/therapeutic procedures...

Background: Copeptin is used as a diagnostic marker for acute myocardial infarction, adrenomedullin as a prognostic marker for congestive heart failure. Both hormones may be involved in pathophysiology of metabolic syndrome.Methods: We have used sera of the ‘Silent diabetes study’ (1). Sera of 920 patients were eligible for this analysis. All patients underwent an oral glucose tolerance test, patients with previously known diabetes were exclude...

ERCUSYN owned by ESE, was set up in 2007 with European funding for 3 years. Sustainability has been achieved by agreements with pharma, and generous support from funding partners and Lohmann and Birkner GmBH, who established and maintained the on-line registry and web (www.ercusyn.eu).On-line brochures for patients and physicians are available in different languages, as well as details on >50 participating centres ...