Endocrine Abstracts

Increased hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) activity in the fetus is a consistent event across different animal species, including the human. Fetal HPA activation contributes both to maturation of organ systems required for extra-uterine life and provides the trigger for the birth process. Precocious activation of the fetal HPA axis, for example in response to an adverse intrauterine environment or periconceptual undernutrition may result in increased incidence of preterm b...

W Arlt, School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Centre for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK AbstractProf. Wiebke Arlt received her undergraduate medical training at the University of Cologne in Germany. She obtained her MD degree in 1993 with distinction and trained in General Medicine and Endocrinology and Diabetes at the University Hospital Würzburg under th...

W Wiersinga, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands AbstractWilmar M Wiersinga obtained his MD in Amsterdam in 1969 and his Board Certification in Internal Medicine in 1976. He obtained his PhD cum laude in 1979 at the University of Amsterdam on the thesis ‘The peripheral conversion of T4 into T3 and reverse T3’. Thereafter he spent two years as a research fellow at the UCLA with professors David...

Introduction: Turners’ syndrome (TS) affects one in 2500 live births. Multiple comorbidities affect TS patients and recommendations for long-term management advocate annual review with a ‘checklist’ approach. This audit of current practice of a specialist TS clinic aims to identify gaps in patients’ management.Methods: A checklist of recommendations for health screening based on the National Turner’s Syndrome Guidelines was devel...

We report the case of a 59-year-old male who presented complaining of several weeks of tiredness, poor appetite and dizziness on standing. He had been treated with flucloxacillin by his GP for otitis externa one week earlier.In 1982, he was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal carcinoma in Hong Kong, which was treated by radical dissection and radiotherapy.On examination, his standing and lying blood pressure were 150/100 and 110/90 respe...

Bert W O’MalleyBert W O’Malley, MD is the Tom Thompson Distinguished Service Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Baylor College of Medicine. A native of Pittsburgh, he has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh (1959) and an MD from their School of Medicine (1963). He completed his residency at Duke University and spent four years at the National Institute of Health followed by four years serving as the Luscious B...

W F Young Jr, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA AbstractProf. William Young is Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Vice-Chair of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, and Nutrition. He received his MD degree from Michigan State University. Prof. Young trained in endocrinology and metabolism at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. He has been a member of the staff at Mayo ...

Introduction: Many endocrinopathies such as acromegaly, Cushing’s syndrome (CS), pheomochromocytom and lipodystrophia can be associated with insülin resistance and unregulated diabetes mellitus (DM).Case report: A 37 –year- and 2 months pregnant women admitted to our out patient clinic for regulation of hyperglycemia. On physical examination; Blood Pressure: 140/95 mmHg, Body Mass Index: 31 kg/m2, central obesity, acanthosis nig...

Introduction: Smokers around the globe commonly report increased body weight after smoking cessation as a major factor that interferes with their attempts to quit. In addition, numerous controlled studies in both humans and rodents have reported that nicotine exerts a marked anorectic action. Nicotine’s effects on energy homeostasis have been mostly pinpointed in the central nervous system, but the molecular mechanisms controlling its action are still not fully understood...

Primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) is often associated with reduced bone mineral density (BMD). An open-labeled, prospective trial was conducted to determine whether denosumab 60 mg subcutaneously given every 6 months, maintains or improves BMD in patients with PHPT.Six patients had symptomatic PHPT and met surgical guidelines however refused surgery, and twelve patients had mild PHPT, asymptomatic except low BMD. The primary outcome index, BMD, was meas...