Pituitary, Thyroid & Adrenal Disorders
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Hypothyroid patients may need to surrender the car keys
Key clinical point: Hypothyroid patients are driving impaired. Physicians need to document, firmly cautioning them to that effect, or face...
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Experimental lenvatinib extends PFS in iodine-refractory relapsed thyroid cancer
Key clinical finding: The investigational drug lenvatinib significantly prolonged progression-free survival and produced high response rates...
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VIDEO: Abnormal endocrinology labs? Look beyond ‘usual suspects’
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Comorbidities found to be drivers of thyroidectomy readmission risk
Major finding: Comorbidities associated with hospital readmission were diabetes (18.6% of readmitted patients, vs. 12.5% of not readmitted...
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Lobectomy suffices for surgery of small papillary thyroid cancers
Major finding: After adjustment, total thyroidectomy did not improve overall survival over lobectomy for tumors 1-2 cm (HR, 1.05; P = .61) or 2.1-...
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Growth hormone levels predict postsurgical acromegaly remission
Major finding: Acromegaly patients with preoperative GH levels greater than 40 ng/mL had a 15% remission rate at 3 months, compared with 58% in...
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Think ‘celiac disease’ in patients requiring high-dose levothyroxine
Major finding: Five percent of hypothyroid patients who needed 125 mcg or more of levothyroxine daily in order to remain euthyroid proved to have...
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VIDEO: When to screen for celiac disease in hypothyroidism
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Thyroglobulin washout boosts diagnostic sensitivity in recurrent thyroid cancer
Key clinical point: Adding surgeon-performed ultrasonography with thyroglobulin washout to fine-needle aspiration cytology increases the accuracy...
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High-volume surgeons have best adrenalectomy outcomes
Major finding: Patients of low-volume surgeons were nearly twice as likely as were those of high-volume surgeons to have complications following...