Autonomous nodular hyperplasia of the adrenal cortex: tertiary hypercortisolism?

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To audit the efficacy of quinagolide (CV205-502, Norprolac, Sandoz) in lowering prolactin, and its tolerability, in patients with bromocriptine resistance (BCR) or bromocriptine intolerance (BCI), in view of the paucity of results published in patients specifically with BCR or BCI, by collating results in our...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Vilar L,Burke CW

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test whether the administration of sodium fluoride in vivo results in an increase in osteocalcin concentration, we administered sodium fluoride to seven healthy male subjects for a period of 3 weeks. Fasting calcium, phosphate, alkaline phosphatase, 25-hydroxyvitamin D, parathyroid hormone and osteocalcin were meas...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Dandona P,Coumar A,Gill DS,Bell J,Thomas M

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Traditionally, acromegaly evaded diagnosis until in its clinically obvious later stages when treatment is more difficult. Over the last 25 years diagnostic tests have improved, but whether clinical disease detection also improved was unknown, so we tested if disease severity at diagnosis had changed from 198...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Reid TJ,Post KD,Bruce JN,Nabi Kanibir M,Reyes-Vidal CM,Freda PU

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The intravenous low-dose ACTH test has been proposed as a sensitive tool to assess adrenal function through circulating steroids. The aims of this study were to: (a) find the minimal intramuscular ACTH dose that induced serum and salivary cortisol and aldosterone responses equivalent to those obtained after a...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Contreras LN,Arregger AL,Persi GG,Gonzalez NS,Cardoso EM

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of the anti-inflammatory drug fenclofenac (600 mg bd) for 28 days to four females with thyrotoxicosis resulted in a rapid decline in thyroid hormone levels. The mean total thyroxine (T4) level of 173 +/- 8.6 (SEM) nmol/l before therapy was normalized to 70 +/- 6.4 nmol/l after administration of the drug...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Pearson DW,Ratcliffe WA,Thomson JA,Ratcliffe JG

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Graves' disease (GD) complicates 0.1% to 0.2% of pregnancies, but congenital thyrotoxicosis is rare occurring in one in 70 of these pregnancies independent of maternal disease status. Antenatal prediction of affected infants is imprecise; however, maternal history, coupled with a high maternal serum TSH rece...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Smith C,Thomsett M,Choong C,Rodda C,McIntyre HD,Cotterill AM

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) is a highly basic 28 amino-acid peptide which was first isolated from porcine small intestine (Said & Mutt, 1970). It is related to several other peptides including PHI (peptide with N-terminal histidine and C-terminal isoleucine amide), secretin, glucagon, and has some sequences si...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Prysor-Jones RA,Jenkins JS

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to examine (1) the diurnal variation in SHBG and (2) the inter-relationships of insulin, IGF-I, SHBG and IGFBP-1 over 24 hours in 10 women with anovulatory PCOS and compare them with weight-matched ovulatory controls. PATIENTS AND METHODS:The two groups comprised 10 anovulatory wom...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Hamilton-Fairley D,White D,Griffiths M,Anyaoku V,Koistinen R,Seppälä M,Franks S

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that oleic acid is the thyroxine binding inhibitor in the serum of seriously ill patients was investigated. 3H-Oleic acid was shown to bind directly to human thyroxine-binding globulin (TBG) by the techniques of one and two-dimensional immunoelectrophoresis in combination with autoradiography. However,...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Haynes IG,Lockett SJ,Farmer MJ,Fitch NJ,Bradwell AR,Sheppard MC,Ramsden DB

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hospital-acquired hyponatraemia is a common and potentially serious condition. Risk factors for hospital-acquired hyponatraemia have not been studied in a controlled fashion. Methods From 1501 patients in whom serum sodium (S(Na)) was determined, 50 cases with hospital-acquired hyponatraemia (in-hospital dec...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Beukhof CM,Hoorn EJ,Lindemans J,Zietse R

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:As only sparse data are available, we aimed to investigate whether needs for activated vitamin D and calcium supplements change in women with hypoparathyroidism during pregnancy and lactation and risk of pregnancy-related complications. DESIGN:Retrospective review of medical records. PATIENTS:Twelve Danish ...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Hartogsohn EAR,Khan AA,Kjaersulf LU,Sikjaer T,Hussain S,Rejnmark L

更新日期：2020-09-01 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：CONTEXT:In men, obesity and the metabolic syndrome are accompanied by decreased testosterone levels, but little is known about the associations between visceral adipose tissue (VAT), VAT-related inflammation and sex steroids. OBJECTIVE:To examine the relative impact of VAT, abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) ...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Gautier A,Bonnet F,Dubois S,Massart C,Grosheny C,Bachelot A,Aubé C,Balkau B,Ducluzeau PH

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Serum testosterone concentrations are affected by factors unrelated to hypothalamo-pituitary-testicular axis pathology. We evaluated the impact of sociodemographic, lifestyle and medical factors, on serum testosterone and sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) in men aged 40-69 years. DESIGN:Cross-sectional ana...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Yeap BB,Marriott RJ,Antonio L,Bhasin S,Dobs AS,Dwivedi G,Flicker L,Matsumoto AM,Ohlsson C,Orwoll ES,Raj S,Reid CM,Vanderschueren D,Wittert GA,Wu FCW,Murray K

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Disturbances in thyroid function have been described in small-for-gestational age (SGA) children but the influence of prematurity is unclear. In addition, the effect of GH treatment on thyroid function has not been studied in short SGA children. OBJECTIVES:To determine whether short SGA children have higher TS...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： de Kort SW,Willemsen RH,van der Kaay DC,van Dijk M,Visser TJ,Hokken-Koelega AC

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 47-year-old woman was evaluated for congenital dwarfism, primary amenorrhoea due to hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism, severe hyperlipidaemia with pancreatitis, and overt diabetes mellitus associated with severe insulin resistance requiring 2.5-3 units of insulin per kilogram body weight. Chromosomal analysis with tryp...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Mantzoros CS,Moses AC

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Women with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and type 2 diabetes (T2D) are more at risk of cardiovascular disease. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that increased visceral adipose tissue (VAT) could explain to a large extent alterations in the cardiovascular disease risk profile of postmenopaus...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Lemieux S,Bédard A,Piché MÈ,Weisnagel SJ,Corneau L,Bergeron J

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty women with secondary hypogonadism and four normal women in the early follicular phase of the cycle were treated for 7 days with 10, 50 or 100 micrograms synthetic LHRH administered intramuscularly at 4 h intervals. Concentrations of pituitary and ovarian hormones in plasma were measured at intervals during the ...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Vaughan Williams CA,McNeilly AS,Baird DT

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normocalcaemic primary hyperparathyroidism is a condition that can present with intermittent hypercalcemia or may evolve into hypercalcemic primary hyperparathyroidism. This milder biochemical entity remains incompletely understood because of a lack of long-term health outcomes regarding both medical and surgical appr...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Dawood NB,Yan KL,Shieh A,Livhits MJ,Yeh MW,Leung AM

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an 11-year-old boy with undermasculinized genitalia and an abnormally expanded CAG repeat length at exon 1 of the androgen receptor (AR) gene. He had microphallus and scrotal hypospadias with chordee, and underwent urethroplasty at 4 years of age. At 11 years of age, a gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) t...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Ogata T,Muroya K,Ishii T,Suzuki Y,Nakada T,Sasagawa I

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Ghrelin and obestatin have apparent opposite orexigenic and anorexigenic effects, although the latter has not been firmly demonstrated in humans. So far, little data have been reported in relation to its potential association with metabolic syndrome (MS). The objective was to study obestatin concentrations in...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Mora M,Granada ML,Roca M,Palomera E,Puig R,Serra-Prat M,Puig-Domingo M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether early (4-8h) post-operative ACTH after trans-sphenoidal surgery (TSS) predicts long-term hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis function and to investigate early morning day 1 ACTH/cortisol variability using rapid sampling. DESIGN:Prospective observational study. METHODS:Participants...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： English KA,Chikani V,Jang C,Dimeski G,Olson S,Inder WJ

更新日期：2020-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We determined the effects of physiological (non-hypotensive) increments of plasma atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) on the vasopressin and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal response to insulin induced hypoglycaemia. DESIGN:Single blind, placebo controlled, randomized study of the effect of vehicle alone or ANF (2...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Wittert GA,Espiner EA,Richards AM,Donald RA,Livesey JH,Yandle TG

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, effects of domperidone, a peripheral dopamine blocking agent, on prolactin and growth hormone were examined to determine whether dopamine regulation of these hormones involved structures external to the blood-brain barrier. A clearcut elevation in prolactin was produced by domperidone. GH respons...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Brown GM,Verhaegan H,Van Wimersma Greidanus TB,Brugmans J

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A convenient, sensitive radioimmunoassay of free thyroxine in serum dialysates is described. The method utilizes a solid phase separation system (pre-formed double antibody) and a relatively short incubation period (220 min) with a staggered addition of tracer. Blanks were low and consistent. The normal range for non-...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Giles AF

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transdermal oestradiol, 100 micrograms/d, was used to treat 11 women suffering from postmenopausal symptoms. After 3 weeks therapy there was a significant rise in the plasma oestradiol into the premenopausal range and a significant fall in plasma FSH level and symptom score. Bone resorption, assessed by urinary excret...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Selby PL,Peacock M

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Acromegaly is associated with increased morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular disease and from stroke in particular. Fibrinogen is an established risk factor for stroke and myocardial infarction and high levels of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) activity were predictive of a recurrent myocardi...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Landin-Wilhelmsen K,Tengborn L,Wilhelmsen L,Bengtsson BA

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:It is known that growth hormone can induce accelerated bone turnover in GH deficient people as well as healthy elderly people. In this study we examined the effect of recombinant human GH (rhGH) on bone mineral mass and bone turnover in the presence of the bone resorption inhibiting agent, pamidronate. Effect...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Erdtsieck RJ,Pols HA,Valk NK,van Ouwerkerk BM,Lamberts SW,Mulder P,Birkenhäger JC

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Small, dense low-density lipoproteins (LDL) are a feature of the metabolic syndrome (MS) but their predictive role still remains to be established. We performed a 2-year follow-up study in 124 subjects with MS (63 +/- 6 years), as defined by the American Heart Association/National Heart, Lung and Blood Instit...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Rizzo M,Pernice V,Frasheri A,Di Lorenzo G,Rini GB,Spinas GA,Berneis K

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Oestradiol sensitizes the pituitary to GnRH, while gonadotrophin surge attenuating factor (GnSAF) may oppose this action. Using the LH response to GnRH during treatment with FSH as an in vivo bioassay for GnSAF, we tested the hypothesis that the augmented LH response to GnRH in the late follicular phase is re...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Dimitraki M,Messini CI,Dafopoulos K,Gioka T,Koutlaki N,Garas A,Georgoulias P,Messinis IE

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00