Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Primary hyperparathyroidism (PHP) is a common endocrine disorder diagnosed biochemically, common use of autoanalyzers increased the incidence of PHP throughout last decades. Minimally invasive parathyroidectomy has been preferred to the explorative surgical approach due to shorter operating time, lower complication rate, and smaller incision size. Thus localization studies have become very important. We aimed to investigate clinical and laboratory characteristics of...

Background: Radioiodine(RAI) has been used to treat hyperthyroidism for more than seven decades. Effects of RAI treatment on thyroid function tests(TFT), risk of hypothyroidism, gland and autonomous nodule volumes and on ultrasonographic features in toxic adenoma (TA) and toxic multinodular goitre TMNG patients, have been previously studied by ourselves and other. However, studies evaluating ultrasonographic changes in thyroid and toxic nodule volumes usually have a follow-up ...

Background: Radioiodine (RAI) therapy has been used for a long time in benign and malign diseases of the thyroid gland. During the application of radioiodine treatment, parathyroid glands may also be exposed to radiation due to its close proximity to the thyroid gland. There is interest in the effects of RAI treatment on parathyroid functions in clinical studies. The aim of this study is to evaluate whether the dose of RAI treatment for benign or malignant thyroid diseases has...

Objective: Thyroid nodules are common in the population more than 90% are benign. Data about the long-term follow-up of benign nodular thyroid disease is limited. We aimed to clarify, clinical outcome, frequency and magnitude of volume changes in cytologically and/or sonographically benign nodules in long-term(> 5 years) follow-up and to determine the predictive features of nodule growth.Methods: We retrospectively collected data of cytologically and...

Introduction: Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is a group of autosomal recessively inherited disorders that are characterised by inactivating mutations at various steps of adrenal steroidogenic pathways causing defective cortisol biosynthesis. 21-Hydroxylase enzyme deficiency (21-OHd) constitutes more than 95% of all CAH cases.Material & Methods: Medical records of patients with all forms of CAH from 19 adult endocrinology clinics located at six ...