Endocrine Abstracts

As endocrinologists, we consider a patient with a pituitary disease is controlled if hormone parameters are normalized and tumour growth is stabilized. However, the patients’ perception of health is related to whether they can continue performing their daily life, both personal and professional; this is often not the case due to pain, physical or psychological limitations or social/family issues related to their disease. This is more relevant nowadays that pituitary dysfu...

Susan M. Webb was born and qualified from Medical School in Barcelona, Spain, and completed training at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London and in San Antonio, Texas. She is a Senior Consultant Endocrinologist at the Hospital Sant Pau, and Professor of Medicine at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She runs the Neuroendocrine Clinic and the Pituitary Disease network of excellence research group (CIBERER u...