Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Although the effect of pre-admission insulin usage (PAIU) in diabetic COVID-19 patients remains uncertain, early studies have reported worse results in this group. Studies generally report in-hospital mortality rates. However, mortality also increases after discharge in COVID-19 patients; the effect of PAIU on this issue is unknown. This study was conducted to examine the effect of PAIU on COVID-19 diabetics’ 90-day mortality data, including the post-dischar...

Introduction and Aims: A higher prevalence of hyperglycemia has been reported in patients affected by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Our study aims to retrospectively evaluate the course of hyperglycemia in patients recovering from COVID-19.Methods: All patients who were hospitalised in Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University Hospital between March 2020 and March 2022 due to COVID-19 and whose HbA1c values were checked during hospitalisation were ex...

Background: Conversion rates of the presentations into publications could be a measure of the scientific Impact of a conference. The aim of the current study was to determine the publication rates of abstracts presented at the 16th European Congress of Endocrinology (ECE 2014) and the factors affecting these rates by using computer algorithms specially coded for this analysis.Methods: All presentations of the ECE 2014 were collected with the web scraping...

Background: Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare endocrine cancer. We aimed to develop machine learning (ML) models for predicting clinical outcomes of patients with ACC and deploy them as a web-based decision support tool. Methods: The S-GRAS dataset1 was used as a training cohort (n=942), while the COMBI dataset2 and new patients were used as a validation cohort (n=220). We used S-GRAS parameters previously d...

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Background: Adrenal masses are detected in 5-7% of adults. The European guidelines on managing adrenal incidentalomas published in 20161 have standardised the management of these patients. However, evidence of the guidelines’ impact on clinical care is still lacking.Methods: We conducted a retrospective, comprehensive review of clinical presentation, radiological characteristics, final diagnosis, and outcome of a large cohort of patients ...

Introduction: Hyperkalemia due to zona glomerulosa (ZG) insufficiency is generally transient and mild for patients with aldosterone-producing adenoma (APA) after adrenalectomy. We report here a case with prolonged ZG insuffiency requiring long-term mineralocorticoid replacement (MR) therapy.Case report: A 45-years-old female with hypertension and hypokalemia admitted to outpatient clinic with incidentally detected right adrenal adenoma (3 cm) showing sig...

Introduction: Hypogonadism persisting in man with macroprolactinoma requires exogenous testosterone replacement therapy (TRT). But TRT may cause secondary elevations of prolactin. We report here a case of macroprolactinoma and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism with persistently high prolactin level after initiating TRT.Case report: A 28 year-old male was admitted to outpatient clinic with complaints of headache, low libido and blurred vision on left eye for ...

Introduction: Ectopic ACTH syndrome (EAS) is a rare cause of Cushing’s syndrome. EAS is most frequently caused by bronchial carcinoid tumor or small cell lung cancer. Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is a rare source of EAS, as reported in this case.Case report: A 65-years-old-female with back pain and weight gain referred to our outpatient clinic with determined signs and symptoms of hypercortisolism. She had arterial hypertension, her sister had ...

Introduction: Cushing’s disease (CD) frequently leads to hypogonadotropic hypogonadism by hypercortisolism and hyperandrogenemia. In the literature, there are totally 96 cases of CD and pregnancy. Only four of 11 cases, operated transsphenoidally, were cured. We aimed to present a case of CD developing pregnancy in which hypercortisolism was successfully controlled by transsphenoidal surgery (TSS) in 2nd trimester.Case report: 28 years old female wa...