Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Adolescence is a challenging time for people with type 1 diabetes (T1DM), associated with worsening glycaemia and disengagement with care. Educational interventions often focus on imparting diabetes-specific skills rather than attending to some of the broader psychosocial challenges young people commonly experience. To address this, we codesigned a psychosocially modelled programme of diabetes education, named ‘Youth Empowerment Skills’ (YES), with young ...

The incidence of differentiated thyroid cancer gradually increased in the last few decades. Primery thyroid cancer is usually located in the thyroid gland and can be classified into well differentiated and poorly differentiated forms. Sooner or later, these cancers metastatize into local lymphnodes or distant organs.We present the histories of two patients with anusual forms of thyroid cancer.A woman of 64 was admitted in our depar...

Background: Carcinoid heart disease (CHD) is a rare carcinoid syndrome (CS) manifestation, often linked to liver metastasis releasing vasoactive amines. CHD can also result from ovarian neuroendocrine tumours (NETs), an uncommon association.Cases Presentations: We reviewed three female patients at our NET centre, averaging 63years of age (59-67years). They all had primary ovarian NETs causing CS and CHD.<p class="abs...