Endocrine Abstracts

We present a case report of a young female patient with hypercalcemia-induced acute necrotizing pancreatitis as first manifestation of a benign parathyroid adenoma.Case: A 46-year-old female presented at the emergency room with a sudden attack of severe epigastric pain and vomiting. Clinical examination revealed a severely ill patient, a silent abdomen which was distended with painful percussion and palpation of the epigastrium. Blood analysis showed sig...

We report a case of GIST comorbidity with pituitary macroadenoma presenting with gastrointestinal bleeding.Case: A 56-year-old male patient was admitted to the emergency department with complaints of hematemesis. Antral gastritis and a mass about 3 cm in diameter with irregular margins in the ampulla detected in upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. Irregular, heterogeneous, hypoechoic solid mass lesion, ~ 36×48 mm in size, was observed inferior–la...

Background: This study was planned to reveal the effect of propylthiouracil treatment on CD40, hs-CRP and Fetuin-A levels of subjects with subclinical hyperthyroidism.Material and methods: After checking CD40, hs-CRP and Fetuin-A levels of 35 patients with subclinical hyperthyroidism, they were given 50 mg of propylthiouracil tablet (thrice daily). After the 3-month administration, CD40, hs-CRP and Fetuin-A levels were then compared to the levels before ...

Background: The objective of this trial is to determine pre- and post-levothyroxine treatment levels of inflammation markers, high sensitive-C reactive protein (hs-CRP) and fetuin A in cases with subclinical hypothyroidism.Material and methods: A total of 32 patients with a diagnosis of subclinical hypothyroidism and a control group of 30 healthy individuals were tested for hs-CRP ile fetuin A levels, followed by administration of 50 μg levothyroxin...

Aim: In our study we aimed to investigate neutrophil/lymphocyte (N/L) ratio, variations in leukocytes and leukocyte subtypes and relationship between N/L ratio and insulin resistance (IR) in obesity.Material and methods: In this study 250 obese patients data were scanned retrospectively and 96 patients that are convenient to inclusion criteria and has complete file information were included in the study. Forty healthy individual with similar age and sex ...

Background: Clinical practice guidelines on diabetes mellitus (DM) have been developed in 2006 by The Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism of Turkish (SEMT). The ongoing ADMIRE Project is designed to evaluate the effect of implementation of various activities to increase the awareness of physicians on the adherence to SEMT guidelines. The first phase results of the project is presented.Methods: Of 180 physicians evaluated previous 12 months’ medi...

Introduction: Hyperthyroidism is defined as thyroid hyperfunction due to overproduction of thyroid hormones. Graves disease is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism. Hyperthyroidism may be associated with glycemic dysregulation. We are presenting a case with diabetic ketoacidosis who had Graves disease and acute appendicitis.Case presentation: A nineteen years old female patient wtih Graves disease who had hyperthyroidism despite high dose antithyroid...

Aim: Overt/subclinic hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism are known to be associated with cardiovascular risks. There have been no studies evaluating the relationship between nodule presence and arterial stiffness in individuals with euthyroid nodular goitre. Our aim in this study is to demonstrate whether nodule presence and nodule stiffness affect arterial stiffness in individuals with euthyroid nodular goitre by using pulse wave analysis (PWA).Materials...

Context: Adipsin, a protein secreted mainly from the adipose tissue, is a structural homologous of complement factor D, a rate-limiting enzyme of the alternative complement system. Growing evidence suggests that the alternative complement system plays a role both in the regulation of energy homeostasis and the atherosclerotic process. Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is an inflammatory based-metabolic disease.Objective: To ascertain whether circulating a...

Both pituitary and adrenal gland metastases of lung cancer are very rare. A 79-year-old male patient with diabetes mellitus and hypertension was admitted to our hospital because of a mass in the lungs of the thorax CT. TSH: <0.005 UIU/ml (0.27–4.2), free T4: 0.794 ng/dl (0.93–1.7). Other pituitary hormones were also examined: FSH: 0.708 mIU/ml (1.5–12.4), LH: <0.1 mIU/ml (1.7–8.6), prolactin: 12.7 ng/ml (4.04–15.2), total testosterone: &#6...