Diagnostic value of the water deprivation test in the polyuria-polydipsia syndrome

Penelope Trimpou, Daniel S. Olsson, Olof Ehn, Oskar Ragnarsson Department of Endocrinology, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg and Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden Abstract OBJECTIVE: Diabetes insipidus (DI) and primary polydipsia (PP) are characterised by polyuria and polydipsia. It is crucial to differentiate between these two disorders since the treatment is different. Read More

Medullary thyroid cancer, leukemia, mesothelioma and meningioma associated with germline APC and RASAL1 variants: a new syndrome?

Anna Angelousi,1,2 Nikolaos Settas,2 Fabio R. Faucz,2 Charalampos Lyssikatos,2 Martha Quezado,3 Narjes Nasiri-Ansari,4 Constantine A. Stratakis,2 Eva Kassi1,4 11st Department of Internal Medicine, Laiko Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece; 2Section on Endocrinology & Genetics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD), National Insitutes of Health Read More

Sarcopenia: From definition to treatment

Yannis Dionyssiotis, Athina Kapsokoulou, Eleni Samlidi, Antonios G. Angoules, Jannis Papathanasiou, Efstathios Chronopoulos, Ifigenia Kostoglou-Athanassiou, Georgios Trovas

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Over the last few decades, worldwide average life expectancy has grown significantly and therefore the percentage of the elderly has correspondingly increased. As a result, clinical medicine has focused much interest on the latter age group and their health problems. During the 20th century, the typical elderly patient was a person with an acute or chronic disease but typically without any major disability…