Endocrine Abstracts

Objectives: We aimed to find if there is any relationship between vitamin D levels and clinical, laboratory parameters and osteoporosis, in primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT).Material and methods: 128 patients with PHPT and 30 patients as a control group were analysed. Patients with PHPT were grouped due to vitamin D levels and levels low than 20 μg/ml accepted as deficiency.Results: Patients with 25-OH vitamin D <20 &#956...

Objectives: Coexisting thyroid nodules affect the treatment choice for PHPT. We aimed to evaluate the incidence of concomitant thyroid nodules in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism and to investigate the relationship between thyroid nodule volume, thyroid gland volume and thyroid nodules with clinical and laboratory parameters.Materials and methods: This study was carried out at Ankara University Endocrinology and Metabolism Department. 183 patien...

Introduction: Werner’s Syndrome (WS) is a rare autosomal recessive adult onset progeroid disorder characterized by the early onset of aged-appearance and age related metabolic disorders. Patients usually develop normally until the 3rd decades of life.Case report: We report a 27 years old female who admitted to our clinic at the age of 15 with hyperglycemia. She was diagnosed as diabetes and type 4 dyslipidemia at the age of 7 years. In her family hi...

Reproductive systems of the Mongolian gerbils are controlled by the photoperiod but body weight is independent of photoperiod. Food intake has an effect on reproduction and gerbils are very sensitive about food intake. Leptin hormone has controls on both food intake and body weight. Finding a link between changes in feeding behavior and reproductive activity in relation to obesity-related issues will play an important role. In this study, three groups were established; a) food...

Introduction: Orthorexia (nervosa) is an eating disorder, characterised by an obsession with avoiding foods perceived to be unhealthy. Though it has not been recognised as a pathological entity in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – IV yet, interest in the condition has increased recently. This study aimed to determine the prevalence and risk factors of orthorexia in a group of diabetic patients.Methods and design: 134 (63 female...

Objective: We aim to detect co-occurence of uterine myomas, thyroid nodules and breast lesions in premenoposual women with menstruel disorders and investigate association between these benign tumors with anabolic hormon levels.Design: Records of 8008 premenopausal women were analyzed who had been admitted to the hospital for routine breast image investigation which was performed by the same radiologist in between 2010 and 2015.Stud...

Objective: Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome (MRKH) is a very rare congenital anomaly characterised by vaginal agenesis and a spectrum of different genitourinary tract anomalies. Typical form of this syndrome is characterised by congenital absence of the uterus and upper 2/3 vagina with normal ovaries and fallopian tubes and atypical form of the syndrome is associated with anomalies of the ovaries and fallopian tubes and renal anomalies.Case r...

A 37-year-old patient with a history of transcranial pituitary surgery because of acromegaly was referred to our clinic with the glucose level 731 mg/dl. she was not using any medication. There was no ketone in the urine and HbA1c was 18.6%. She has 17×16×15 mm of residual macroadenoma on pıtuıtary MRI with level of GH 17.5 ng/ml and IGF-1 422 ng/ml. She was using 140 units of insulin glargin U300 and 100 units of insulin regular per a day before octreotide...

Purpose: Irisin is a secreted protein implicated in the regulation of insulin sensitivity and energy metabolism. Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is an inflammatory-based metabolic disease associated with insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, glucose metabolism dysfunction and obesity. There is also some evidence of a link between irisin and inflammation. Our aim of the study to ascertain whether the association of circulating irisin levels with inflammatory markers in PCOS.<p...

Objective: Approximately 30% of patients with thyroid nodules have indeterminate, nondiagnostic, or suspicious fine-needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy results. These patients usually undergo thyroidectomy because of cancer risk. Our aim was to determine diagnostic markers to distinguish benign from malignant thyroid neoplasms, so we focused on G2-M boundary regulators of the cell cycle and investigated the expression of two proteins, cyclin A and cyclin B1.M...