Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Hyperthyroidism during pregnancy is a rare condition and occurs in 0.1–0.4% of all pregnancies. Graves’ Disease and transient gestational thyrotoxicosis constitute the majority of emerging thyrotoxicosis during pregnancy. Subacute thyroiditis (SAT) may also cause temporary hyperthyroidism.Case report: A thirty-three-year-old, 13-week pregnant patients was admitted with fatigue, pain and swelling in thyroid lodge. Thyroid function ...

Aim: It is aimed to evaluate whether arterial stiffness, which is an independent risk indicator for hyperthyroid cardiovascular diseases, is affected by pulse wave analysis (PWA) and to observe changes in patients treated with hyperthyroidism.Methods: A total of 102 volunteers were included in the study (30 in the overt hyperthyroid group, 28 in the subclinical hyperthyroid group and 14 with euthyroidism by antithyroid therapy and 30 healthy). The arteri...

Introduction: Superior mesenteric artery (SMA) syndrome is a rare cause of abdominal pain due to proximal intestinal obstruction which is characterized by compression of the third portion of the duodenum secondary to the narrowing of the space between the superior mesenteric artery and aorta. The development of the SMA syndrome is primarily attributed to the loss of the intervening mesenteric fat. Lipodystrophy is a rare clinical syndrome characterized by the loss of adipose t...

Background: İt is known that there is a relationship between some diseases and blood groups.Objective: The objective of our study is to investigate how often ABO and Rh blood groups are seen in benign thyroid diseases, especially in autoimmune-mediated thyroid diseases, and hence whether there is an association between blood groups and thyroid diseases.Method: A total of 958 patients who were followed due to any benign thyroi...

Introduction: Familial partial lipodystrophy (FPL) is a rare genetic disorder characterised by a selective lack of subcutaneous fat that is associated with insulin resistance and diabetes. FPL has been reported to be caused by mutations in the peroxisome proliferator activator receptor-γ (PPARG) gene, which encodes a key transcription factor that regulates adipocyte differentiation and insulin sensitivity.Material and methods: The objective of this ...

Objective: Acquired partial lipodystrophy (APL) is a rare disorder characterized by progressive selective fat loss. In previous studies, metabolic complications were reported to be relatively rare in APL, while they were quite common in other types of lipodystrophy syndromes. However, so far, there has been no systematic study on metabolic complications in APL.Methods: We have systematically evaluated 21 APL patients in the Turkish Lipodystrophy Study Gr...