Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Male hypogonadism secondary to AIDS is common and may present with non specific symptoms. Patients may self-diagnose hypogonadism and seek unauthorised androgen therapy. We report a male patient who developed polycythemia after receiving unauthorised sources of androgen therapy.Case report: A 42 years old man with AIDS diagnosed 10 years ago has repeatedly refused antiretroviral therapy. His most recent CD4 count was 314 cells/μl. His ...

Background: Bariatric surgery has been shown to decrease insulin requirements even before significant weight loss has occurred. We report a patient with marked improvement in glycemic control despite modest weight loss post bariatric surgery.Case presentation: A 47 years old Chinese man with obesity (weight 90 kg, BMI 31.2), hypertension, hyperlipidemia and type 2 diabetes mellitus diagnosed in 2005 is on follow up with our endocrine clinic. Despite comp...

Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) not only is congenital disease that known as insulin-dependent diabetes, often occurs in children and adolescents. Recent advances in quantitative proteomics including fluorescence two-dimensional differential gel electrophoresis (2D-DIGE) and matrix assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) have offered opportunities to discover plasma proteins as biomarkers for tracking the progression and for underst...

Background: Optimal production of cellular energy and metabolites in mitochondria is one of the most important factors in endocrine organs that accomplish the momentary adaptation to ligand stimulation, such as insulin secretion and aldosterone biosynthesis. Although it has been suggested that thyroid gland function is also largely dependent on mitochondrial function, functional behavior of thyroid gland on compromised mitochondrial function remained to be identified. In this ...

Miscarriage is a very common occurrence in humans, in which blastocyst implantation failure in naturally-occurring and assisted human reproduction occurs in up to 2/3 of all cases. Calcium (Ca2+) has been showed to involve in many cellular signal transduction pathways as well as regulation of cell adhesion, which is necessary for the physiology process of endometrial epithelial cell transformation and stromal cell decidualization during embryo implantation. Previous...

Objectives: Prolactin (PRL) normalization after 3 months of Cabergoline (CAB) treatment are useful predictors of responsiveness in patients with prolactinoma. However, differences within the PRL normalization cut-off value have not been identified.Methods: We reviewed the medical records of patients with prolactinomas who were treated with CAB as a primary drug at Severance Hospital. We included patients who had a full dataset of pituitary hormone assays...

Growth hormone (GH) therapy (GHT) requires long-term commitment to daily sc GH injections that may present adherence challenges. Patient preference and adherence have been shown to be affected by delivery devices in association with convenience of administration, level of injection-site pain, confidence in correct dose administration and satisfaction with the device. This survey investigated if switching GH device – from NordiLet/others to NordiFlex – improved pati...

Background and aims: The efficacy and safety of dapagliflozin as add-on therapy in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and inadequate glycemic control with evogliptin and metformin combinations was investigated.Materials and methods: Patients with HbA1c of 7.0% to 10.5% receiving evogliptin 5mg and metformin ≥1000 mg were randomized to receive dapagliflozin 10 mg/day (n=99) or placebo (n=99) for 24 weeks. The primary end...

Objectives: The activating mutation (L206R) in PRKACA has been reported in more than 30–50% of cases with cortisol-producing adenomas (CPAs). We aimed to compare the clinical characteristics and gene expression profiling between PRKACA L206R mutant and wild type CPAs.Methods: We included 57 subjects with CPAs who underwent adrenalectomy at Seoul National University Hospital. Sanger sequencing for PRKACA w...

Introduction: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) of increasing prevalence, lacks factors known to predict the prognosis of GDM. The correlations between levels of Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT) and BMI before pregnancy and the clinical progress of GDM were evaluated.Methods: Data of pregnant women diagnosed as GDM in Busanpaik hospital from January 1, 2010 to February 28, 2015 were studied. Correlations between patients’ OGTT in gestational age...