[Diagnostic, therapeutic and healthcare management protocols in thyroid surgery. 2nd Consensus Conference (U.E.C. CLUB)].

Aim: To review and to update the management protocols in thyroid surgery proposed two years ago by 1st Consensus Conference called on the topic by the Italian Association of Endocrine Surgery Units (UEC Club).

Method: The 2nd Consensus Conference took place November 30, 2008 in Pisa within the framework of the 7th National Congress of the UEC Club. A selected board of endocrinologists and endocrine surgeons (chairmans: Paolo Miccoli and Aldo Pinchera; speaker: Lodovico Rosato) examined the individual chapters and submitted the consensus text for the approval of several experts.

[Diagnostic, therapeutic and healthcare management protocols in parathyroid surgery. 1st Consensus Conference].

Aim: The aim of the study was to draw up a management protocol in parathyroid surgery promoted by the Italian Association of Endocrine Surgery Units (UEC Club), based on the guidelines of the main international scientific societies and shared by the experts and applied by the operators in the sector.

Methods And Consensus: The management protocols, already presented in 2003, on the occasion of the current review were examined by the 1st Consensus Conference called on the topic by the Italian Association of Endocrine Surgery Units (UEC). The Conference comprised two distinct sessions, the first in November 2006 within the framework of the 5th National Congress of the UEC Club in Verona, and the second in September 2007 within the framework of the 10th Multidisciplinary Scanno Prize Meeting.

Pulmonary hypertension is frequent in hyperthyroidism and normalizes after therapy.

Background: In recent years, many authors have described several cases revealing an association between hyperthyroidism and pulmonary hypertension. This observational study was designed to evaluate the prevalence of pulmonary hypertension in hyperthyroidism and to determine the role of methimazole in regulating pulmonary vascular resistance in these patients.

Methods: We studied 114 patients, 78 women and 36 men, whose mean age was 51+/-13years.

[Diagnostic, therapeutic and healtcare management protocols in thyroid surgery. I consensus conference (UEC club)].

The aim of the study was to draw up a management protocol in thyroid surgery promoted by the Italian Association of Endocrine Surgery Units (Club delle UEC), shared by the experts and applied by the operators in the sector. The management protocols already presented in February 2002 and drawn up by the first Author of the present publication on the occasion of the current review were examined by the I Consensus Conference called on the topic by the Italian Endocrine Surgery Units. The conference comprised two distinct sessions, the first on 18 June 2005 within the framework of the 4th National Congress of the Club delle UEC in Naples, and the second on 17 September 2005 within the framework of the 8th Multidisciplinary Scanno Prize Meeting.

[Secondary hyperparathyroidism].

We reviewed the results of twenty-four years' experience of parathyroidectomy for secondary hyperparathyroidism. Over the period from 1976 to 2000, we performed 171 parathyroidectomies for secondary hyperparathyroidism (91 males, 80 females; median age: 57.4).