Endocrine Abstracts

Background: The hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis has a pivotal role in combating acute insults. Glucocorticoids play a role directly or indirectly in the maintenance of normal vascular tone and in potentiating the vasoconstrictor action of catecholamine, associated with septic shock.Aims: To determine the incidence of adrenal insufficiency (AI) and its relation to mortality in patients with septic shock.Settings and de...

Background: Diabetic ketoacidosis is characterised by biochemical tired of hyperglycemia, acidosis, and ketonemia. It remains a life threatening condition despite improvement in diabetic care, timely identification and intervention remains the backbone of treatment.Aim and objectives: i) To evaluate the clinical and biochemical prognostic markers in diabetic ketoacidosis. ii) To correlate the various prognostic markers with mortality in diabetic ketoacid...

Background: The metabolic syndrome is one of the fastest growing epidemics of the modern era in both the industrialised as well as developing world. Waist circumference (WC) is an important component to diagnose metabolic syndrome. Cut off point of WC to diagnose metabolic syndrome is different in.different ethnic groups.Objective: To study and correlate the variation in prevalence of metabolic syndrome depending on the site of waist measurement and to s...

Background: Sheehan’s syndrome or postpartum pituitary necrosis though rare, is still remains one of the commonest causes of hypopituitarism in the developing parts of world like Indian subcontinent. The clinical presentation is often variable and frequently accompanied by hypogonadism which leads to low bone density due to loss of bone protective effect of oestrogen.Aims: To find out the bone mineral density and the quality of life (QoL) i...

Introduction: Diabetes is associated with dysfunction, and failure of different organs, especially the eyes, kidneys, nerves, heart, and blood vessels. Diabetic macrovascular complications are the leading cause of deaths in diabetics. The correlation between LVH and LVDD with HbA1c is not clear in newly diagnosed T2DM Indian diabetics.Aims and objective: To study the frequency of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and left ventricular diastolic dysfuncti...