Endocrinology
Why Choose UVa for Endocrinology?
UVa provides a full range of services in endocrinology and offers special expertise in the following areas
- Benign breast disease
- Cardiovascular endocrinology
- Diabetes mellitus
- General endocrinology
- High risk pregnancy
- Hormonal causes of hypertension
- Lipid disorders
- Neuroendocrinology
- Osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease
- Pituitary tumors
- Reproductive medicine and infertility
- Thyroid disease
National Recognition
- UVa is consistently ranked as one of the top centers for endocrinology and diabetes care in the country by U.S. News & World Report
- UVa physicians travel worldwide to train primary care physicians and nursing professionals how to recognize the signs of diabetes and educate their patients about diabetes management
- UVa's Diabetes and Hormone Center of Excellence is one of the few National Institutes of Health designated Diabetes Centers, a designation awarded diabetes research programs.
- UVa has the only multidisciplinary pituitary clinic in the country.
- Internationally recognized expertise in medical and surgical treatment of patient with pituitary tumors
Innovative Treatment and Technology
- Using a endoscope, doctors at UVa have performed over 5,000 minimally evasive transsphenoidal procedures to remove pituitary tumors.
- Clinical trials of novel drugs and lifestyle changes to prevent and treat diabetes and hormonal causes of diabetes
- Research in new insulin and non-insulin treatments to islet cell transplantation to cure diabetes
- State-of-the-art bone mineral density testing
- Expertise in complex metabolic bone disorders associated with organ transplantation, cancer and cancer treatment.
- State-of-the-art gamma knife
- Care coordination by endocrinologist and neurosurgeon in a single visit.
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