Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Prevalence of celiac disease (gluten enteropathy) in general population is around 1:100–300. Half of these patients are women. Most common age for diagnose is third year or third to fourth decade of life, due to mild clinical signs. In the moment of diagnosis, 30% of patients already have lowered bone mineral density (BMD). Pathophysiologic mechanism for lowering BMD is secondary, regulative, intestinal hyperparathyroidism.Aim: To trac...

COGHD may be of genetic origin associated with deficiency of other pituitary hormones. Non treatment with GH in these cases can cause metabolic and other disturbances. The aim of this research was examining consequences of non treated COGDH in three sisters with familial hypopituitarism. Three sisters 60-, 59- and 54-year-old with familial hypopituitarism (GH,TSH, gonadotropin and prolactin deficiency) which was diagnosed 46 years before were examined. Substitution therapy per...

The aim of the study was to compare ATPIII and IDF criteria for metabolic syndrome in diabetes mellitus type 2 subjects.Two hundred and seventy-seven participants were included, 177 women 60.43±8.06 years and 100 men aged 56.35±9.58 years. Group A: metabolic syndrome by ATPIII; group B metabolic syndrome by IDF.Following laboratory and antropometric measurements were done: total cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL- and HDL ch...

In recent years, adrenal tumors (AT) are no rare disease. They may arise from all zones of adrenal cortex and medulla, benign or malignant, sometimes as metastases of distant malignances. Patient’s present hormone excess or mass effect, but part of them is clinically silent. The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency, hormonal secretion and pathohistology of AT in our patients lasting years. All patients with AT which are hospitalized in the period from Januar...