ESPE Abstracts

Background: Bilateral primary pigmented nodular adrenocortical disease (PPNAD) is one of the rare causes of Cushing syndrome, which has traditionally been treated by bilateral adrenalectomy. However, bilateral adrenalectomy mandates life-long adrenal hormone replacement and the patients remain at risk of adrenal failure for the rest of their lives. In adult patients with PPNAD, there have been a few reports of successful unilateral adrenalectomy. However, to our knowledge, the...

We perfomed mutational analyses of the major MODY genes (HNF1A, HNF4A, HNF1B, GCK) on 263 Japanese patients with early-onset, nonobese, MODY-like diabetes mellitus referred to Osaka City General Hospital for diagnosis. Mutations were identified in 103 (35.9%) patients; 57 mutations in GCK; 29, HNF1A; 7, HNF4A; and 10, HNF1B. Compared with these mutation-positive patients, 160 mutation-negative patients were significantly older (P=0.003), and had high...