Issue 2/2011

Issue: 2/2011 Author: Vladimir Vasilev, Joanna Matrozova, Atanaska Elenkova, Georgi Kirilov, Sabina Zacharieva Abstract: Background: Adrenal incidentalomas are defined as incidentally found tumours in the course of abdominal imaging studies performed for reasons unrelated to functional assessment of the adrenal glands and up to 11% of them may be pheochromocytomas. Chromogranin A is a promising marker […]

Issue: 2/2011 Author: Vladimir, Vasilev, Georgi Kirilov, Sabina Zacharieva Abstract: Introduction: Up to 20% of patients with adrenal incidentalomas may experience some type of hormonal disorders either caused by hypersecretion of the adrenal cortex or medulla or by precursor molecules. Accumulating evidence suggests that even clinically inactive adrenal tumours harbour different derangements of steroidogenesis. Aim of […]

Issue: 2/2011 Author: Tsvetalina Tankova, Nevena Chakarova, Lilya Dakovska, Iliana Atanassova Abstract: During recent years there is an increasingly recognized need to develop strategies for diabetes screening and diagnosis that will allow effective early disease detection. The aim of the present study is to assess HbA1c in subjects with different glucose tolerance – normal glucose tolerance […]

Issue: 2/2011 Author: Mihail Boyanov, Deniz Bakalov Abstract: The thyroid ultrasonography is a key imaging method in endocrinology. In the follow-up, especially by another operator, volume differences are found very often due to the very methodology. The subject of this study was to determine the reproducibility of the thyroid size and volume measurements. 30 subjects (25 […]

Issue: 2/2011 Author: Vladimir Vasilev, Joanna Matrozova, Sabina Zacharieva Abstract: Blood pressure measurement constitutes one of the essential sources of information in the clinical assessment of health. For over 100 years the auscultatory method for its determination in the brachial artery has been the major basis of almost all investigations in the field of arterial hypertension. […]