Evaluation of two inhibitory tests (nomifensine and L-dopa + carbidopa) for the diagnosis of hyperprolactinaemic states.

abstract：:Thirteen normal children, seven males and six females, during early puberty (I-II according to Tanner), have been studied. Each subject was injected at weekly intervals and in random order with 100 micrograms of LHRH, 0.2 mg/kg of naloxone and 0.9% saline in single bolus. The gonadotrophin response was evaluated. The ...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Fraioli F,Cappa M,Fabbri A,Gnessi L,Moretti C,Borrelli P,Isidori A

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to assess the volumetric bone mineral density (BMD) in girls with Turner's syndrome (TS) before and during growth hormone (GH) treatment in combination with low dose oestrogens as well as three years after discontinuation of GH treatment. DESIGN:In a prospective, randomized injectio...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Sass TC,De Muinck Keizer-Schrama SM,Stijnen T,Asarfi A,Van Leeuwen WJ,Van Teunenbroek A,Van Rijn RR,Drop SL

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Hypothyroidism is a common disorder and while the association of overt hypothyroidism with hypercholesterolaemia is clear, the effect upon lipids of the minor abnormalities of thyroid function often found in those receiving T4 replacement therapy is unclear. The aim of the present studies was to define in tho...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Franklyn JA,Daykin J,Betteridge J,Hughes EA,Holder R,Jones SR,Sheppard MC

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the mechanism through which mifepristone interrupts folliculogenesis. DESIGN:Normally ovulating women undergoing donor intrauterine insemination (IUI) treatment were investigated during two menstrual cycles treated with gonadotrophins. In the first cycle (FSH cycle), the women were given 150 IU reco...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Messinis IE,Krishnan M,Kazem R,Khadilkar S,Templeton AA

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There is a lack of normal reference data on urinary GH (u-GH) excretion in children. We have investigated the impact of age, gender, pubertal development and body mass on reference values for u-GH excretion in normally growing non-obese and obese children. STUDY DESIGN:u-GH levels were evaluated in 1153 heal...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Bona G,Petri A,Rapa A,Conti A,Sartorio A

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Primary hyperparathyroidism and calcium supplementation have been linked to cardiovascular outcomes. The study objective was to examine plasma calcium as a predictor of cardiovascular disease in the general population, as results from previous cohort studies are conflicting. DESIGN, PARTICIPANTS AND MEASUREM...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Walsh JP,Divitini ML,Knuiman MW

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the clinical and neurological outcomes in newborns with primary congenital hypothyroidism presented with delayed TSH elevation (dTSH), and to define parameters that may predict the evolution of transient vs. permanent hypothyroidism in these newborns. DESIGN AND PATIENTS:An observational study was ...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Zung A,Radi A,Almashanu S

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of surgical stress on the secretions of LH, FSH, testosterone (T) and oestradiol (E2) were studied in twelve male patients. During surgery LH rose significantly; post-operatively, LH fell but remained persistently elevated a week after operation. However, T and E2 fell progressively to a nadir on the second...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Wang C,Chan V,Yeung RT

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:The rarity of pituitary apoplexy renders it a difficult subject for audit; hence there are no evidence-based standards of optimum care for such patients. The key controversy in management relates to the role of acute neurosurgical intervention. In recent years we have adopted a relatively conse...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Ayuk J,McGregor EJ,Mitchell RD,Gittoes NJ

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:With increasing use of computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, pituitary adenomas are being discovered incidentally with increasing frequency. However, limited data are available concerning the clinical importance and natural history of such 'incicentalomas'. We have undertaken a prospective study...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Feldkamp J,Santen R,Harms E,Aulich A,Mödder U,Scherbaum WA

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Localization of ectopic ACTH-secreting tumours causing Cushing syndrome (ECS) is essential for clinical management, yet often difficult. [68 Ga]-DOTATATE PET/CT ([68 Ga]-DOTA-(Tyr3 )-octreotate)] is an FDA-approved high-resolution diagnostic tool for imaging neuroendocrine tumours. Data on the clinical utili...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Wannachalee T,Turcu AF,Bancos I,Habra MA,Avram AM,Chuang HH,Waguespack SG,Auchus RJ

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We investigated the clinical usefulness of thyroid blood-flow measurement in predicting relapse of Graves' disease (GD) in comparison with known risk factors for GD relapse. MEASUREMENT:Thyroid blood flow was measured in pulsed Doppler mode at the inferior thyroid artery (ITA), and the peak systolic velocity...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Ueda M,Inaba M,Kumeda Y,Nagasaki T,Hiura Y,Tahara H,Onoda N,Ishikawa T,Nishizawa Y

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Mutations of the PROP1 gene lead to combined pituitary hormone deficiency (CPHD), which is characterized by a deficiency of GH, TSH, LH/FSH, PRL and, less frequently, ACTH. This study was undertaken to investigate the molecular defect in a cohort of patients with CPHD. DESIGN, PATIENTS AND MEASUREMENTS:A mul...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Lemos MC,Gomes L,Bastos M,Leite V,Limbert E,Carvalho D,Bacelar C,Monteiro M,Fonseca F,Agapito A,Castro JJ,Regateiro FJ,Carvalheiro M

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In January 1997 we introduced a protocol for the treatment with GH of children with impaired growth after unfractionated total body irradiation (TBI). This study is an evaluation of that protocol. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Between January 1997 and July 2005, 66 patients (48 male) treated for haematological malign...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Bakker B,Oostdijk W,Geskus RB,Stokvis-Brantsma WH,Vossen JM,Wit JM

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gonadotrophin response testosterone producing adrenal cortical adenoma in a 61-year-old woman is described. Oophorectomy was performed before adrenalectomy as at first an ovarian origin of excess and androgen production was suspected. The hypophyseal gonadal feedback system was studied after oophorectomy using LHRH ...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： de Lange WE,Pratt JJ,Doorenbos H

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant insulinomas are very rare endocrine tumours with a variable clinical course. We describe a 51-year-old man who had two large insulinomas resected from the body of the pancreas and 19 years later, having again become symptomatic, was found to have hepatic metastases. Medical treatment with diazoxide and octre...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Scott A,Hinwood D,Donnelly R

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The relationship of quantitative GH secretion to height, growth velocity and puberty is complex and has been the subject of extensive study in children. This study was designed to relate quantitative GH secretion to final height. SUBJECTS:Twenty tall (> 183 cm, 90th centile for adult height) and 20 short (< ...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Trainer PJ,Palermo M,Kirk JM,Fanciulli G,Perry LH,Delitala G,Besser GM

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We wished to develop optimal criteria for interpreting the single-dose overnight metyrapone test and to compare the diagnostic efficiency of the overnight and the standard 6-dose metyrapone tests for the differential diagnosis of ACTH-dependent Cushing's syndrome. DESIGN:Retrospective pilot study based on al...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Avgerinos PC,Nieman LK,Oldfield EH,Cutler GB Jr

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Serum thyroglobulin (Tg) has been associated with a number of thyroid disorders and has been proposed as an indicator of iodine deficiency in a population. However, few studies have addressed the epidemiology of Tg in a population-based setting or in the context of exposure to radioactive iodine-131 (I-131). ...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Cahoon EK,Rozhko A,Hatch M,Polyanskaya O,Ostroumova E,Tang M,Nadirov E,Yauseyenka V,Savasteeva I,McConnell RJ,Pfeiffer RM,Brenner AV

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((1) H-MRS) is a sensitive, noninvasive imaging technique capable of measuring brain metabolites in vivo. Chronic exposure to endogenous hypercortisolism in Cushing's syndrome (CS) is associated with negative effects on memory and hippocampal volumes, even after biochem...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Resmini E,Santos A,Gómez-Anson B,López-Mourelo O,Pires P,Vives-Gilabert Y,Crespo I,Portella MJ,de Juan-Delago M,Webb SM

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The mechanisms leading to higher bone mineral density (BMD) in hirsute patients than in healthy controls have seldom been examined. We compared the metabolic, hormonal and bone metabolic parameters in hirsute patients and female controls and correlated BMD and bone metabolic parameters with testosterone, oest...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Glintborg D,Andersen M,Hagen C,Hermann AP

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:ACTH-producing non-pituitary tumours are often associated with altered precursor processing, particularly in the most aggressive ones. Since placental tissue is characterized by its ability to express the proopiomelanocortin (POMC) gene and rapid cellular proliferation, we examined whether intact POMC could b...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Raffin-Sanson ML,Massias JF,Ankotche A,Coste J,de Keyzer Y,Oliver C,Dumont C,Cabrol D,Ferré F,Bertagna X

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The protein-tyrosine-phosphate nonreceptor 22 gene (PTPN22) has recently been identified as a susceptibility locus for a number of autoimmune diseases including Graves' disease (GD). PTPN21 is another member of the PTPN family and its gene PTPN21 maps to the first reported region of genetic linkage to GD, GD-...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Zeitlin AA,Heward JM,Brand OJ,Newby PR,Franklyn JA,Gough SC,Simmonds MJ

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid status was estimated serially by measuring triiodothyronine (T3), thyroxine (T4) and thyrotrophin (hTSH) in 20 patients suffering from meningococcal meningitis, typhoid fever and other acute febrile illnesses. Significantly low T3 and only slightly increased T4 were observed in all the patients. hTSH was norma...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Maharajan G,Etta KM,Singh A,Ahuja IS,Ahuja GK

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the effects of dopamine on the secretion of TSH and its subunits in vivo and in vitro. Four normal controls, seven patients with primary hypothyroidism, two patients with peripheral resistance to thyroid hormone (PRTH), and two patients with alpha-secreting pituitary tumours underwent a 3-h dopamine in...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Cooper DS,Klibanski A,Ridgway EC

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one patients with hyperthyroid Graves' disease were treated with carbimazole 30 mg daily, given as a single dose. Propranolol was also given for the first 3 weeks. All became clinically euthyroid with normal serum thyroxine (T4) levels, usually within 1-3 months. Patients with large goitres and raised serum alk...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： MacFarlane IA,Davies D,Longson D,Shalet SM,Beardwell CG

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether maternal vitamin D supplementation, in the vitamin D deficient mother, prevents neonatal vitamin D deficiency. DESIGN:Open-label randomized controlled trial. SETTING:Metropolitan Melbourne, Australia, tertiary hospital routine antenatal outpatient clinic. PARTICIPANTS:Seventy-eight wom...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Rodda CP,Benson JE,Vincent AJ,Whitehead CL,Polykov A,Vollenhoven B

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pituitary-dependent Cushing's syndrome is rare in childhood. Two patients are reported who had unsuccessful transsphenoidal microadenomectomy and therefore underwent pituitary radiotherapy. In both patients there was progressive normalization of hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal function and at 8 and 10 years after radiot...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Johnston LB,Grossmann AB,Plowman PN,Besser GM,Savage MO

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adrenal vein sampling (AVS) failure is mainly due to right adrenal vein unavailability. Multinomial regression modelling (MRM) and left adrenal vein-to-peripheral vein ratio (LAV/PV) were proposed to predict the lateralization index without the right AVS. OBJECTIVE:To assess external validity of MRM and LAV...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Bouchard-Bellavance R,Perrault F,Soulez G,Chagnon M,Kline GA,Bourdeau I,Lacroix A,So B,Therasse E

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of thyroid hormones and antithyroid treatment upon lumbar spine bone mineral content (lumbar BMC) were studied in a consecutive series of patients with myxoedema and thyrotoxicosis, respectively. All patients were investigated in the untreated state and 3-monthly during appropriate treatment for 1 year by ...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Krølner B,Jørgensen JV,Nielsen SP

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00