Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Dysglycemia is independently associated with increased risk of death in critically ill adults. The aim of this study was to analyze the differences in glycemic control between the diabetic and non- diabetic patients underwent acute myocardial infarction (AMI).Materials and methods: Retrospective descriptive study of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) from January to June 2016, including b...

Background: The number of patients with type 2 diabetes with mental problems will increase in the coming years1. The fight against diabetes cannot be reduced only to the competent prescription of medications, but should be carried out comprehensively taking into account numerous barriers.Aims: The objective of this study was to investigate prevalence and impact of anxious and depressive reactions among persons living with type 2 diabetes in Be...

BackgroundThe prevention of complications and improvement of metabolic control and state of health in diabetes cannot be effective only with medications. And now we need to develop different approaches – not only up to date pharmacological treatment of diabetes, but change the Self-Management Behavior among patients with Type 2 Diabetes.AimsTo assess the current status of diabetic self-management behavio...

BackgroundThe current COVID-19 pandemic is the worst from world infection outbreaks have occurred frequently in the last two decades, and it has led to significant mortality. Although the respiratory system is the most prominent target of SARS-CoV-2, extrapulmonary involvement are important contributors of its morbidity and mortality. A number of symptoms occur in these patients due to the involvement of various endocrine glands. The nervous, endocrine, ...

Introduction: Today, thyroid papillary cancer remains to be the most frequent diagnosed malignancy. Despite highly positive outcomes, treatment protocol still requires surgical intervention, which, in turn often affects not only thyroid and regional lymph nodes, but also recurrent nerve and parathyroid glands. The aim of our study was to compare the metabolic compensation of calcium and thyroid metabolism improvement in patients operated on thyroid cancer recently and 20 years...

In our study during the period of 6 months we were monitoring lactate and other biochemical parameters levels in patients with diabetes mellitus and myocardial infarction after introducing Metformin into their treatment protocols.Fifteen persons with the DM 2 (eight males and seven females) were included into the first group. Metformin was administrated in a daily dosage of 1700 mg. Some patients (7/15) were receiving antidiabetic therapy with the sulpho...

Hyponatremia - a decrease in serum sodium to 135 mmol/l or less can lead to serious complications. In patients with various pathologies and serum sodium levels of 120–125 mmol/l mortality reaches 23%, in levels less than 115 mmol/l - 50%. Biochemical verification of hyponatremia is not difficult. It is difficult to establish the cause and treatment of chronic hyponatremia. Patient S., 64 years old, was hospitalized in a state of alcoholic intoxication with a diagnosis of ...

Obesity and weight excess is a widespread condition all over the world, as well as thyroid nodular disease. Screening studies in different populations prove a higher frequency of nodular thyroid formations of various nature in overweight individuals.Aim: In our study, we evaluated the dynamics of the volume of dominant and non-dominant nodular formations, as well as their sonographic structure in overweight patients with prediabetes in the groups with tw...

Introduction: Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN-1) is a rare, autosomal dominant inherited disorder, characterized by a high predisposition to develop a wide spectrum of endocrine and nonendocrine tumors, mostly of parathyroids, endocrine pancreas, and anterior pituitary.Methods: Analysis of clinical and laboratory data, family history of multiple endocrine neoplasia.Results: A 19-year-old woman with autoimmune thyroiditis a...

The phosphodiesterase inhibitor pentoxifylline (PTX) is known to have immunomodulatory effects in some autoimmune diseases. The aim of our study was to assess the influence of glucocorticoids monotherapy and additive treatment with PTX on peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) proliferation and apoptosis in patients with Graves’ ophthalmopathy (GO).Eighteen patients with GO and 28 healthy controls were investigated. GO patients were divided into ...