Endocrine Abstracts

Thyroid hemiagenesis (TH) is a rare inborn anomaly presenting as failure of the development of one thyroid lobe. Recent research on the molecular background underlying thyroid dysgenesis have mainly focused on patients with congenital hypothyroidism; in contrast, subjects presenting TH were only sporadically involved. Changes in transcription factor genes, including TTF1, TTF2 and PAX8, which play an important role in thyroid embryogenesis, have been postu...

Recently, since the lives of patients with chronic renal failure have prolonged considerably, the importance of prevention and treatment of metabolic bone disease which inevitably develops in this group, has become better appreciated.The aim of this study was to evaluate the relation between bone mineral density (BMD) and specific markers of bone turnover in haemodialysis (HD) population.A cross-sectional study involving 40 HD pati...