Endocrine Abstracts

Pituitary adenomas arise from adenohypophyseal cells and progress with increased comorbidity and mortality. It is important to examine the diagnosis, prevalence, course and treatment of the subgroups of the disease in our country because pituitary adenomas are seen in the most productive periods of life and have important clinical results. In our study, 667 pituitary adenoma patients who applied to Eskişehir Osmangazi University Medical Faculty Hospital Endocrinology Depa...

Background and aims: Diabetes is an endocrinological disease with high incidence and important complications. Studies indicate that by 2030, diabetes will affect approximately 366 million people around the world. Neopterin is produced by activated monocyte-macrophages with the induction of interferon gamma and it is accepted as a biomarker of immune activation. Elevated neopterin levels in biological fluids can be observed in neurological, cardiovascular and autoimmune disorde...

Introduction: Diabetic nephropathy is a clinical syndrome characterized by overt proteinuria and decreased renal function in the course of diabetes mellitus. The earliest symptom is the presence of albuminuria, but a decrease in glomerular filtration rate(GFR) has been observed in patients without albuminuria. In our study, it was aimed to investigate the presence and prevalence of nonalbuminuric diabetic kidney disease observed in patients with type 2 diabetes, and to determi...

Parathyroid hormone(PTH) is a peptide hormone that regulates ionized calcium. Primary hyperparathyroidism, in which the bone-building-destruction balance is disturbed, is due to the uncontrolled secretion of parathormone. The systemic inflammation index (SSI) is a variable that has been validated in studies aimed at evaluating the inflammation that has been frequently mentioned recently. The disruption of this bone-making destruction process affects the inflammatory process in...

Background: Anemia is a common finding in patients with diabetes mellitus which increases the progress of the diabetic complications. There are several factors which cause anemia out of renal failure in diabetics. In this study, we aimed to investigate the frequency of anemia and factors that decreases hgb levels in diabetic patientsMethods: This retrospective study includes 207 diabetic patients that were hospitalized between january 2019 and january 20...