Endocrine Abstracts

Aim: It is hypotethically thought that increased frequency of breast cancer in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism(PHPT)may be due to the fact that calcium accumulation in the breast may be higher in patients with PHPT giving rise to more breast-related examinations. Although there are many studies or case reports showing calcification in many organs and tissues, in PHPT, there is not any study investigating breast calcification in these patients in the literature. We ai...

Purpose: In this study, we aimed at determining the dynamic thiol/disulfide homeostasis and oxidant balance, and investigating the relation of these parameters to the severity of the disease and the serum calcium levels.Material and method: 55 patients with iatrogenic hypoparathyroidism follow-ups, and 40 healthy volunteers were included in the study. The blood dynamic thiol/sulfide balance, Total Antioxidant Status (TAS), Total Oxidant Status (TOS), Par...

Purpose: Hyperinsulinemia is the metabolic change, which is related to the cochleovestibular diseases the most. It is thought that undiagnosed deafness is highly probable in individuals with prediabetic hyperinsulinemia. We aimed at investigating the results of hearing function test in hyperinsulinemic individuals.Material and Method: 164 patients were included in the study, which was designed as a prospective research, 76 of which were in case group and...

Aim: In our study, we aimed at investigating cardiovascular risk predictability by conducting arterial stiffness measurement in patients with idiopathic hyperprolactinemia.Material – Method: The biochemical parameters and arterial stiffness analyses of 54 patients with idiopathic hyperprolactinemia, who had applied to our polyclinic in 2017 and 2018, and 55 healthy volunteers having similar characteristics with regard to age, sex and body mass index...

Serum CA 19-9 (carbohydrate antigen 19-9) is a tumor marker of monosialoganglioside structure. Its level is frequently measured for screening purposes in daily practice by physicians, while its main use is in the study of tumor recurrence and follow-up of recurrences. Although significant elevations in CA 19-9 levels cause suspicion of malignancy, an underlying malignant disease may not always be determined and benign pathologies may also be seen. A 45-year-old female patient ...

Introduction: Pseudohypoparathroidism (PHP) is a condition mimics hypoparathyroidism biochemically with a hypocalcemia and hyperphosphatemia but differentiates from it an elevated parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels. PHP characterized by targeted organ unresponsiveness to PTH and mainly subdivided two groups. PHP type 1a an autosomal dominant disease related to mutations of GNAS1. This subtype has biochemical findings and characteristic somatic phenotype known as Albright Heredit...

Hirsutism, development of terminal body hair in women in unexpected areas, may result from different etiologies; 4.3% being nonclassical congenital adrenal hyperplasia (NCCAH) and acromegaly being one of the rarests. We here present a severe hirsutism case with acromegaly and NCCAH.Case: A 30-year-old woman with headache and visual field abnormalities was consultated by our clinic about her cranial imaging revealing a macroadenoma in pituitary localizati...

Objective: Muslims worship by fasting from pre-dawn (suhoor) until sunset (iftar) for 30 days in the religious month of Ramadan. In addition to prolonged hunger, patients fasting with a diagnosis of hypothyroidism take their doses of levothyroxine outside of daytime fasting hours. This study compares thyroid functions of fasting hypothyroidism patients with the values before Ramadan.Methods: One hundred patients aged 18–65 years were included in the...

Introduction: Berardinelli Seip Congenital Lypodystrophy (BSCL) is a rare otosomal recessive disease characterized by major criteria which are lypoatrophy, acromegaloid features, hepatomegaly, hypertriglyceridemia, insulin resistance and minor citeria which are hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, psycomotor retardation, hirsutism, precocious puberty, long bone cysts, phlebomegaly. The presence of three major criteria or two major plus two minor criteria required for diagnosis of BSCL...

Introduction: Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) patients with distant metastasis (DM) have variable clinical forms. PTC mostly metastasizes to the regional cervical lymph node. Metastasis rate is approximately 20–90% available when diagnosed. In addition, the overall incidence of DM is approximately 10%. DM are usually to the lungs, bone and brain. Furthermore rarely liver, pancreas, skeletal muscle, adrenal gland, ovaries, sphenoid sinuses and submandibular gland metasta...