Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Hyperthyroidismcan be associated withorbitopathy that manifests as exophtalmos due to orbital tissue inflammation. Usually the diagnosis is straight forward when an autoimmune thyroid disorder is present, but conditions mimicking Graves orbitopathy can pose a diagnostic challenge.Case report: We report the case of a 51 year old caucasian woman who was referred to our clinic with asymmetrical exophtalmos in november 2019. The patient stated th...

Background and Aim: Non-functioning pituitary adenomas (NFPAs) are hormonally inactive adenohypophyseal tumors. The absence of hormone hypersecretion and the lack of clinical manifestations delay the diagnosis and therefore symptoms of mass effect are frequently seen in NFPAs. The primary endpoint of this study was to evaluate the clinical presentation of patients with NFPAs and their therapeutic management. The secondary endpoint was to identify how gender and tumor size impa...

Panhypopituitarism refers to decreased production of all of the pituitary hormones of the adenohypophysis with or without deficiency of neurohypophysis function. The development of the disorder is frequently insidious and the manifestations often depend on the etiology of the condition.Case report: In October 2019 a 57-year-old man collapsed in front of the hospital after being discharged from the cardiology clinic. The day before, he had undergone angio...

Introduction: Besides the amount of bone mineral assesed through bone mineral density (BMD), studies have shown that neck geometry parameters as hip axis length (HAL) and neck-shaft angle (NSA) could also be reliable parameters to be included in the hip fracture assesement. On the other hand, bone geometry is known to be modified in acromegaly in flat bones, thus hip fracture is not a recognized direct complication in acromegaly neither through bone mass or long bone geometry....

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus and acromegaly are both associated with an increased risk of fracture caused by altered quality of bone. TBS represents an important tool for assessment of bone microarchitecture.Objectives: The aim of this study is to assess the bone deterioration through the trabecular bone score (TBS) and to compare TBS and Z score between 2 groups of patients: acromegaly and diabetes mellitus.Methods: This retros...