Publications by authors named "F Ion Popa"
Teriparatide (TPT) acts against severe primary (postmenopausal) osteoporosis (MOP), and it requires continuation with another anti-resorptive drug to conserve or enhance the effects on fracture risk reduction. To analyse the sequential pharmacotherapy in MOP who were treated upon a 24-month daily 20 µg TPT protocol (24-mo-TPT) followed by another 12 months of anti-resorptive drugs (12-mo-AR) amid real-life settings. 1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFcolorectal cancer is a common and serious condition, with surgical resection being the primary treatment for localized cases. Anastomotic dehiscence (AD) remains a significant postoperative complication, and anastomoses are typically created using either manual suturing or mechanical stapling, each with specific benefits and challenge. Material and this retrospective study analyzed outcomes in 100 rectal cancer patients who underwent surgical resection, with anastomoses performed via manual suturing (n=50) or mechanical stapling (n=50).
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- - Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) is a significant autoimmune thyroid disease where patients often present with asthenia (fatigue), presenting challenges in differentiating it from other conditions; this study aimed to analyze the relationship between HT and asthenia in newly diagnosed patients.
- - Conducted between July 2022 and July 2023 across multiple university hospitals, the study included 120 patients, divided into an asthenia group (49.2%) and a non-asthenia group, discovering that asthenia was linked to a higher incidence of headaches and hypothyroidism but thyroid function tests were similar between both groups.
- - The findings suggest that asthenia may not be a strong indicator of thyroid dysfunction
Background: Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC), the third most frequent histological type of thyroid malignancy, may be found isolated or as part of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 (MEN2). One particular subtype of this autosomal dominant-transmitted syndrome includes an association with cutaneous lichen amyloidosis, although, generally, a tide genotype-phenotype correlation is described in patients who carry proto-oncogene pathogenic variants.
Methods: Our objective was to provide an endocrine perspective of a case series diagnosed with -positive familial MTC associated with cutaneous primary lichen amyloidosis amid the confirmation of MEN2.
Asymptomatic primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) involves 80-90% of the parathyroid tumor-associated cases of PHPT in the modern medical era, while normocalcemic PHPT (NPHPT) has a prevalence of 0.1-11%. We aimed to analyze the bone status and mineral metabolism in NPHPT amid conservative or surgical management.
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