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Current Issues and New Developments in the Endocrine Care of Climacteric Women
Years of pioneering attempts to find the best possible approach to this new endeavor of endocrine therapy have gone by with the progressive trend being to lower the dose of steroids administered to...
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Hypertension in Postmenopausal Women
It has been long known that blood pressure is typically lower in pre-menopausal women than in age-matched men, that arterial blood pressure increases after the cessation of menses and that after the...
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New Approach to Declining Androgens and Sexual Apathy in Ageing Women
Sexual apathy is distressing. With increasing depression among women, many seek counselling and therapy. Androgens in pharmacologic doses can induce intense sexual desire. Thus, empiric selfmedication...
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Managing Erectile Dysfunction from the Point of View of the Couple
Some studies have assumed that ED is a shared sexual dysfunction that is distressing for men who experience the condition as well as for their partners, and have examined the adverse effects of ED on a...
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Hyperprolactinaemia The Essentials
Short-term rise in PRL concentrations can be induced by stress, sleep, physical effort, hypoglycemial,2,8 and also is a part of human sexual response (orgasm).9 Pathological hyperprolactinaemia has...
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Medical Management of Acromegaly
Treatment Objectives The clinical aims are to relieve symptoms, to reduce the volume of the pituitary tumor, to avoid its tumor relapse, and to improve long-term morbidity and mortality. Recent...
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Growth Hormone Deficiency in Autoimmune Pituitary Disorders
Epidemiology and EtiologyAbstract: Growth hormone (GH) is a polypeptide hormone consisting of 191 amino acids, synthesised, stored and secreted by somatotroph cells in the lateral wings of the anterior...
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Is Prevention the Solution to the Worldwide Epidemic Explosion of Type 2...
These two entities are now recognised as prediabetic states as both are associated with a very high risk of progressing to overt diabetes.Abstract: In the last two decades, the worldwide explosion in...
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Postprandial Hyperglycaemia and Cardiovascular Complications of Diabetes
The caveats of the OGTT are numerous because 75g or 100g glucose is almost never ingested during a meal and, more importantly, many events associated with ingesting a pure glucose solution do not...
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Understanding and Managing Primary Hyperparathyroidism –Anything New?
Classic Primary Hyperparathyroidism Content Categories: Parathyroid DisordersAbstract: Abstract The endocrine disorder primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) is characterised by increased parathyroid...
View ArticleManagement of genital Chlamydia trachomatis infection. A national clinical...
DISEASE/CONDITION(S) Chlamydia trachomatis infectionGUIDELINE CATEGORY Diagnosis Evaluation Management Prevention Screening TreatmentCLINICAL SPECIALTY Family Practice Infectious Diseases Internal...
View ArticleGuidelines for the practice of diabetes education
DISEASE/CONDITION(S) * Type 1 diabetes mellitus * Type 2 diabetes mellitusGUIDELINE CATEGORY Counseling Evaluation Management PreventionCLINICAL SPECIALTY Endocrinology Family Practice Internal...
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Osteoporosis in Men
But a decade ago, endocrinologist Sundeep Khosla, M.D., made another profound discovery: Estrogen regulates bone metabolism in men as well as women. Moreover, declining estrogen levels can lead to...
View ArticleInsulin gene polymorphisms in type 1 diabetes, Addison's disease and the...
To read full article please click here.Abstract: Background Polymorphisms within the insulin gene can influence insulin expression in the pancreas and especially in the thymus, where self-antigens are...
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Fracture Risk Following Bariatric Surgery
"We knew there was a dramatic and extensive bone turnover and loss of bone density after bariatric surgery," says Jackie Clowes, M.D., Ph.D., a Mayo rheumatologist and senior author on the study. "But...
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Study Shows New Approach to Prevent Antibody-Mediated Damage in Kidney...
Results show that the drug under study, called eculizumab, prevents antibody-mediated kidney transplant rejection by inhibiting the immune system's activation of one of the body's important defense...
View ArticleLaparoscopic Radical Hysterectomy for Early-stage Cervical Cancer
While technically challenging with a steep learning curve, clear advantages include decreased operating time, lower patient morbidity, shorter length of inpatient hospitalization, less blood loss,...
View ArticleUro-genital Prolapse Surgery—An Update on Post-operative Urinary Incontinence
The cost of POP surgery in that country is estimated at more than $1billion, and similar figures can be observed in other developed countries.2 POP is the leading indication for hysterectomy in...
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Understanding Diabetic Nephropathy – Is There a Genetic Susceptibility?
Improved understanding of the aetiology and pathogenesis of these complications is urgently needed. Effective screening strategies to identify individuals with diabetes most likely to develop...
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BRIDGES – Funding Opportunities for Translational Research in Diabetes
Importantly, such interventions must also have the potential to be put into clinical practice in a range of settings and to be widely disseminated to people with diabetes and their communities. These...
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