Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Effective management of the transition from childhood to adulthood in congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) can reduce the problems that may arise in the follow-up during adulthood.Aim: Evaluation of the clinical characteristics and sociodemographic data of CAH patients transferred from the Pediatric Endocrinology Clinic to the Adult department of our hospital and the comparison of the 2 transition models carried out during this period was t...

Objective: Despite treatment, the quality of life in patients with acromegaly remains lower than in the healthy population due to the classical findings and complications related to the disease. Therefore, in the follow-up of acromegaly, evaluation of quality of life along with symptoms and biochemical parameters is recommended. The aim of our study was to evaluate the quality of life, anxiety and depression status of our acromegaly patients and to assess the factors affecting...

Ectopic mediastinal parathyroid adenoma is a rare cause of primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT), which is reported in 1-1.5% of patients. We present you a case of a 22-year old male, who was suffering from severe itchiness which significantly interferes with his daily activities of life. His laboratory results were suggestive of PHPT (Table 1). His initial scans, including Technetium-99m (Tc-99m) Sestamibi (Mibi) did not reveal any abnormality. Subsequently, increase of PTH leve...

Objective: Nonfunctional adrenal masses are a risk indicator of increased cardiometabolic risk. Especially; increased thrombogenic ambient, insulin resistance, hepatosteatosis and abdominal obesity are determined in these patients with nonfunctional adrenal masses. Our purpose was to show the association of adrenal incidentalome and metabolic syndrome in consideration of the studies and to detect the increase in the carotid intima-media thickness which is regarded as the prece...

Introduction: Primary aldosteronism is presented with signs of hypertension and hypokalaemia classically, however, primary adrenal carcinoma is very rare condition. We aimed to present a patient with a metastatic adrenal carcinoma after the primary diagnosis of hyperaldosteronism.Case report: A 46 years old male patient was referred to our hospital with weakness, dry mouth and weight loss. He had lost weight as 31 pounds during last 3 months. Physical ex...

Propylthiouracil (PTU), used to treat thyroid dysfunctions such as Graves’ disease, rarely induces lupus-like syndrome. A 52-year-old woman developed dermatological findings of systemic lupus erythematosus with malar rash, photosensitivity and discoid lupus erythematosus-like lesions, after 3 weeks of exposure to the drug. ANA and anti-dsDNA were positive. Skin biopsy of face revealed vacuolar changes in basal layer and lymphoid infiltration in perivascular region of derm...

Introduction: Acromegaly is a very rare disease with persistent GH secretion due to excessive release of liver IGF1. The risk of malignancy, particularly colon cancer, is increased in acromegalic patients. But no evidence is found in the literature associated increasing of laryngeal carcinoma in acromegalic patients. We aimed to present this case that laryngeal carcinoma should be considered in acromegaly by the clinicians.Case report: A 51-year-old male...

Background: We aimed prospectively investigate the laboratory and electrocardiographic parameters (hearth rate, QRS, QT, QTc, Tpe, Tpe/QTc, arrhythmia prevalance) in patients with graves disease before and after antithyroid therapy.Methods: 71 patients (48 female, 23 male), age between 18–50 (mean ± s.d.: 36.48 ± 12.20) with GD were included into the study. Patients treated with antithyroid therapy (thionamids and/or surgical the...

Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) of the breast are very rare. They represent less than 1% of breast carcinomas. It is important to differentiate metastatic neuroendocrine neoplasia from primary neuroendocrine neoplasia of the breast. Histopathological misinterpretation of a breast NET is common. In a study of 18 NET cases that metastasized to the breast, it was found that 62% of these tumors originated from the gastrointestinal tract and 28% from the lung. Forty-four percent of th...

Background: Exercise training has become an important adjunct therapy for both the prevention and management of type II diabetes mellitus. Interest in telemedicine is increasing as a potentially innovative and sustainable intervention approach to diabetes management. Telemedicine can facilitate the achievement of individualized treatment goals by training patients to manage their own disease.Objective: To evaluate the effect of telemedicine on exercise c...