Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Mono or combination therapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors for malignancies causes thyroid dysfunction in the form of overt or subclinical hypothyroidism, or thyrotoxicosis. Thyrotoxicosis phase is often transient and in some cases so short that it cannot be diagnosed in time and the patient is examined late when hypothyroidism is confirmed. We describe a case of Cervical Cancer woman who developed transient thyrotoxicosis and later hypothyroidism after combin...

Objective: The aim of our investigation was the study of blood adiponectin and leptin levels in patients with menopausal metabolic syndrome (MMS) and their correlation with the parameters of MMS features.Methods: 40 females with menopausa have been investigated. In 38 cases diabetes mellitus type 2 has been registered, and in 2 – impaired glucose tolerance. Mean duration of postmenopausal period was 11.1±7.4. Control group consisted of 10 femal...