Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Among the lung carcinomas metastasizing to the thyroid, adenocarcinomas are the commonest followed by squamous, small cell, large cell and bronchioloalveolar carcinomas.Case presentation: A 55-year-old man who presented with superior vena cava syndrome was found to have an 11 cm mediastinal mass encasing superior vena cava and compressing trachea and esophagus. The mass reached right pulmonary hilus. A bronchoscopic biopsy showed small cell c...

Our knowledge about sexual dysfunction during the treatment of patients with prolactinoma is limited. The sexual dysfunction may not improve or turn out a different form as in our patient. Delayed ejeculation (DE) is a complex form of male sexual dysfuntion, characterized by a considerable delay in ejaculation or an inability to complete ejaculation. Both organic and psychogenic etiologies can cause DE, however the pathophysiology is indefinite. In this case, we present a male...

Objective: Diabetic retinopathy was one of the important complications of diabetes both in type 1 or type 2 and cause blindness. High lipid levels was accused of endotheial dysfunction and so play a role in retinal exudate formation in retinopathy. The aim of this study was to acess the association between serum lipid levels and diabetic retinopathy.Methods: Our study was carried out retrospectively in Istanbul Medeniyet University Goztepe Training and R...

Objectives: Diabetic nephropathy is a common complication of diabetes. It can be a cause of abnormal lipoprotein metabolism and may be had an negative impact on metaboic control in diabetics. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of diabetic nephropathy on lipid profiles of adult type 1 diabetics.Methods: Our study was carried out retrospectively in Istanbul Medeniyet University Goztepe Training and Research Hospital between 2012 and 2013. The...

Aim: Gallstones are associated with excess body fat. Our aim was to evaluate lipid levels and markers of oxidative stress in subjects with asymptomatic gallstones.Material and method: Eighty subjects (55 females, 25 males) with a mean age±S.D. of 51±14 years with asymptomatic gallstones were admitted to the study. Forty subjects (25 females, 15 males) with a mean age±S.D. of 57±12 years (P<0....

Lipodystrophic syndromes are a heterogeneous group of usually rare disorders, which have in common the selective and irreversible deficiency of adipose tissue in the absence of nutritional deprivation or catabolic state. Clinically, they are characterized by insulin resistance, related to a state of hypoleptinemia, with manifestations such as polycystic ovarian syndrome, type 2 diabetes mellitus, severe hypertriglyceridemia, and steatohepatitis among their most frequent metabo...

Objective: Postoperative hypocalcemia is one of the major concerns following total thyroidectomy as well as the most frequent cause of prolonged hospital stay. The first purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between body composition parameters and symptomatic hypocalcemia following total thyroidectomy. In addition, the effects of disease- and patient-related factors on hypocalcemia were investigated.Methods: In this cohort study, a total...

Background: Diabetes mobile phone applications (hereafter referred to as diabetes apps) are a promising tool for self-management. Due to the ubiquitous, low cost, interactive and dynamic health promotion, and there is potential for a cost-effective intervention in diabetes self-care. However, there is uncertainty of the clinical effectiveness.Objectives: To investigate the effect of mobile phone applications on glycemic control in the self -management of...

The patient had been diagnosed with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) at age 5 because of precocious of puberty. He had been receiving dexamethazone and fludrocortisone therapy over the course of his life. When he was 16 years old, a scrotal ultrasound had been performed for the evaluation of bilateral testicular pain which revealed multiple sharply marginated, hypoechoic masses throughout both testes. A biopsy of left testis had been reported as ‘Leidig cell tumour&#1...

Introduction: The diagnosis of an increasing number of adrenal tumors, so-called ‘incidentalomas’, is the result of technological advances in imaging such as abdominal ultrasonography (USG), computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We present a case of an accessory spleen mimicking a nonfunctional incidentaloma.Case: An 18-year-old boy was referred for evaluating of left adrenal mass that was detected by USG performed for ...