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M Gembicki

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PubMed1988

Echocardiographic abnormalities in acromegalic patients.

UNLABELLED: The aim of our study was the evaluation of the cardiac size and left ventricular function in 26 patients with acromegaly and 20 control subjects using echocardiography. The following parameters were evaluated: systolic and diastolic ventricular dimensions, diastolic posterior wall and interventricular septal thickness, left ventricle ejection fraction and left ventricular mass, amplitude of the posterior left ventricular wall movement, speed of the circular fibres shortening area of the left ventricular muscle and left ventricular contractility index. RESULTS: In 91% of patients with acromegaly echocardiographic abnormalities were found. The most frequent were: concentric thickening of the left ventricular posterior wall in 38%, interventricular septal thickening in 54% and increased left ventricular mass in 84.6% of acromegalic patients. Left ventricular dimensions were increased: diastolic in 65.4% and systolic in 92% of patients. In 46% of cases the ejection fraction was decreased. There was no correlation between extent of the left ventricular hypertrophy and other echocardiographic abnormalities, serum growth hormone concentration, choice of therapy and duration of the disease.

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PubMed1988

Optimization of nuclear medicine procedures for the diagnosis and management of thyroid disorders: report of a research coordination meeting held in Vienna, 15-17 December 1986 under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The third and final meeting of a coordinated research programme on the diagnosis and management of thyroid disorders was held in Vienna from 15 to 17 December 1986. The participants were from Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Israel, Malaysia and Thailand. Each participant had studied between 500 and 1000 patients for thyroid function evaluation by performing T3, T4 and TSH radioimmunoassays. Each had also used the newly available supersensitive immunoradiometric (IRMA) assay in a group of patients to compare the efficiency of the new assay with that of the conventional assay. A microcomputer was provided to each participant for data analysis. Internal quality control was studied by establishing precision profiles and external quality control was on the basis of pooled standard sera in different ranges. Recommendation for the strategy suggested T4 RIA as the test of first choice in each category of thyroid function. IRMA TSH was suggested as a second test in borderline cases.

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