Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Hypertriglyceridemia is an established complication associated with some parenterally fed patients. In healthy individual, lipid particles are hydrolyzed to release fatty acids via the action of lipoprotien lipase (LPL) which used eventually for energy or stored in adipose tissue. In stressed patient, the activity of LPL is decreased. We present a 16-year-old girl, who is a known case of acute myeloid leukemia on chemotherapy, was admitted to the hospital with se...

Aim: To investigate the clinical efficacy of the treatment of patients with neuro-ishemic diabetic foot ulcers (DF) by using sorption-antimicrobial nanocomposition based on silica sorbents.Methods: Hydrophobic-hydrophilic sorption-antibacterial nanocomposition, offered for the treatment of ulcers and wounds, contains sorbents (nano-disperse silicon dioxide, polymethylsiloxane) and antibacterial components (decamethoxin, metronidazole). In this study 78 p...

Background and aims: Comparative animal study of efficacy of intermittent short courses administration of lyophilized single-, three- and alive multistrain probiotic on insulin resistance in rats with experimental obesity.Methods: We included 70 rats divided into 7 groups (n=10 in each). Rats of group I were intact. Newborn rats of groups II-VII were injected with monosodium glutamate (MSG) (4 mg/g). Rats of group II (MSG-obesity group) were unt...

According to state statistics service, Russia’s population in 2018 is more than 146.8 mil people. The total prevalence of acromegaly may range between 2.8 and 13.7 cases per 100,000 people and the annual incidence rates vary between 0.2 and 1.1 cases per 100,000 people (Lavrentaki A, et al. 2016). The epidemiological data for acromegaly in Russian population is lacking. The Russian hypothalamic and pituitary tumors registry was founded in 2004 and for 2018 it con...

Introduction: Proteinuria is a condition in which urine contains an abnormal amount of protein. Proteinuria is a sign of chronic kidney disease (CKD), which can result from diabetes, high blood pressure and other diseases that cause inflammation in the kidneys. If CKD progresses, it can lead to end-stage renal disease, when the kidneys fail completely.Case presentation: Sixty-three years old female patient attended our clinic as her glycaemia was poor co...

Introduction: Dumping syndromes are common after bariatric surgery and can present diagnostic and therapeutic challenges in pregnancy.Case report: A 23-year-old female who underwent a RYGB surgery because of morbid obesity in 2013. She had no medical history of diabetes nor any other comorbidity related to obesity. Two years later, her weight had reduced from 128 to 76 kg and also her body mass index (BMI) from 43.8 to 26 kg/m2. She was treate...

For over 50 years the casuistic of patients with thyroid cancer registered in the Nuclear Medicine Department of the National Institute of Endocrinology in Bucharest, Romania, has over 12 000 cases. In the last 6 years, a total of 2580 new cases have been added. They are organized in a ‘classic file’ format. As a necessity and the first step in order to build a digital national database, we developed the BIOMAT-ENDO software as a Windows Forms application that stores...

Background: An increasingly recognized complication of Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB) surgery is the development of postprandial hypoglycaemia (PPH). However, there remains no agreed standard on how to diagnose this condition. Commonly used tests include a prolonged oral glucose tolerance test (POGTT) and mixed meal tolerance test (MMTT). Little is known regarding how these tests compare in the post-bariatric population.Methods: Ten patients who had con...

Case history: A 30-year old female presented with a 10-month history of enlarging neck mass, fatigue and weight gain. Assessment by her GP found her to have a large smooth goitre and biochemical hypothyroidism. The patient had a history of intestinal failure secondary to mitochondrial disorder. As a result of intestinal failure she was entirely dependent on parenteral nutrition and was intolerant of any oral intake, with venting of her stomach to reduce pain. She was referred ...

Cigarette smoke contains over 60 well established carcinogens. There are strong links between some of these carcinogens and various types of smoking-induced cancers. In this study we investigated whether cigarette smoke extracts (CSEs) affects the cell proliferation, migration, and invasion of BG-1 human ovarian cancer cells by alteration of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). We confirmed that CSEs increased the ovarian cancer cell viability in a dose-dependent manner. A...