Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The awareness of osteoporosis is essantial of treatment. We investigated the awareness of osteoporosis in the patients with postmenopausal women in the region of Northeastern Anatolia.Methods: Four hundred and two patients with postmenopausal women was included in this study. We detected the age of menopause, the conscience of osteoporosis in the postmenopousal period, DEXA reports, habits of regular walking, drinking of milk, and used to v...

The GH/IGF axis has been implicated in the pathogenesis of retinopathy in diabetic subjects, the aim of this study is to evaluate the prevalence of diabetic retinopathy in hypersomatotropic patients.Subjects and methods: Twenty four hypersomatotropic patients (12 females, 12 males mean age =49 years, mean hypersomatotropic duration =11 years) have diabetes for 7.25 years in average. To search for diabetic retinopathy a funduscopy was performed in all pat...

Although GH has been implicated in the pathogenesis of retinopathy in diabetic subjects, the frequency of retinopathy in diabetic acromegalic subjects is deemed to be rare. The aim of our study is to evaluate the prevalence of retinopathy in hypersomatotropic patients.Subjects and methods: In total, 40 acromegalic diabetic patients (21 M, 19 F, mean age=50 years) underwent funduscopy to search for diabetic retinopathyResults: Among...

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...

Introduction: Primary hyperparathyroidism (PHP) in pregnancy is very rare condition and the true incidence of PHP in pregnancy is not well known. PHP is associated with significant maternal and foetal morbidity and mortality. PHP is diagnosed based upon levels of blood calcium and parathyroid hormone (PTH) in normal renal function status. However diagnosis of PTH can be difficult, the physiological changes of pregnancy in calcium homeostasis such as maternal blood volume expan...

Introduction: Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most frequently occurring subtype of thyroid differentiated cancers. PTC frequently metastasizes to the cervical lymph node region and metastasis rate of approximately 20–90% is available when diagnosed. Distant metastasis are usually the lungs, bone and brain metastases. Furthermore rarely the adrenal gland, skeletal muscle, ovaries, submandibular gland, sphenoid sinuses, liver and pancreatic metastases can be occurr...

Introduction: This study is performed for inspecting vaccination rates in geriatric patients, negatory effects leading to unvaccination and changes occuring in vaccination rates by patient education.Methods: This study is planned in a combination of two formats: retrospectively for determining last 5 years’ vaccination rates of patients and prospectively for determining the change in vaccination rates after patient education. Totally 579 diabetic pa...

Background: Thyroid hormones affect almost all the tissues of the body and their cardiovascular effects are very significant. The relationship between masked hypertension (MHT) and thyroid hormones is not known. Therefore, we sought to investigate any relationship between patients with MHT, newly diagnosed by home blood pressure monitoring, and thyroid hormones.Methods: Patients older than 18 years of age without a previous diagnosis of hypertension and ...

Background: This study aimed to determine the prevalence of masked hypertension (MHT) and its association with asymptomatic organ damage (AOD) in a low socioeconomic district of Ankara, Turkey.Material and methods: Data obtained from the medical records of 712 patients with no known diagnosis of hypertension that presented to a polyclinic due to symptoms related to elevated blood pressure (BP) and were screened for MHT were retrospectively reviewed. The ...