Endocrine Abstracts

Purpose: 111In-octreotide scinti aphy may be useful in patients with insulinoma during pre-surgical localization of the tumor and octreotide is effective in inhibiting insulin secretion and reducing the hypoglycemic events. The aim of the study was to evaluate 111in-octreotide scintigraphy in localizing primary and metastatic insulinomas and predicting the response to octreotide administration.Patients and methods: Diagnosis of insulinoma was made in 17 ...

Objective and importance: Among pathologies associated with acromegaly, have great importance both colon benignant neoformations such polyposis, and cardiovascular complications such as miocardic hypertrophy, arterial hypertension, coronaropathy and valvulopathy.Clinical presentation: We report a case of 74-years-old woman with acromegaly, diabetes mellitus type II and hyperthyroidism, who was admitted at our clinic with symptoms of chronic febricula wit...

Objective: Acromegaly is a rare pituitary disease due to excessive secretion of GH. Insulin resistance, impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and diabetes mellitus (DM) are common features in acromegaly. Seventy-four active acromegalic patients were retrospectively evaluated in order to determine the impact of family history for diabetes mellitus on glucose tolerance, insulin resistance and beta-cell function.Patients and methods: We studied 74 patients with ...