Endocrine Abstracts

A 17-year-old girl was referred to Endocrinology Unit by her neurosurgeon. She had complained of severe headache, palpation induced galactorrhoea on left mammary and visual abnormalities for 1–2 months. Her menstrual period was regular. On physical examination a pale face and fatigued appearance was noticed. Biochemical and hormonal analyses are as follows: fasting glucose level was 84 mg/dl, serum sodium level was 140 mmol/l (136–145), serum potassium level was 3.9 ...

Introduction: A successfull diabetes management is not only restricted to medical therapy but also includes a difficult and new life style adoptation. Errors frequently observed in patients such as not complying with their diet program, wrong way of doing insulin injections and insufficient insulin doses, hinder the adequate metabolic control of the disease. Also, physco-social status and different education levels complicate the effectiveness of the first training of the pati...

Introduction: Mucoceles-mucus containing benign cysts of paranasal sinuses- are common with an incidence of 1% but involvement of sphenoid sinus is much less common. In this case report, we reported a patient presented with hypopituitarism after sphenoid mucocele drainage operation.Case report: A 59- year-old woman was admitted to our endocrinology out-patient clinics with a complaint of fatigue over the past 2 months. One month prior to admission, she h...

Background: Magnesium (Mg) deficiency is a common problem in diabetic patients. Deficiency of Mg may increase the incidence of diabetes. Development of hypomagnesemia may affect glycaemic regulation and trigger complications of diabetes. The aim of our present study was to explore relationships between the serum Mg level and diabetes complications.Materials and methods: In this retrospective study, we evaluated 673 diabetic patients, of whom 57.8% were m...

Background: Subclinical hypothyroidism (SH) is defined as high TSH accompanied with normal free thyroxine (FT4). SH has found to be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) and increased mortality. Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) is now considered to be a new noninvasive measurement method used for the early detection of CVD susceptibility. EAT has vasocrine and paracrine actions which lead to CVD. We aimed to evaluate measurement of EAT and to detect relationsh...

Aim: The prevalence of overweight and obesity is increasing and becoming a global health problem. Obesity is the cause of increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality and psychosocial problems. There are several reports which mentioning the unfavourable effects of aggressive weight loss regimes on the immune system. This study was designed to search for the effect of a straightforward, controlled and permanent weight loss program on the immune system.<p class="abstext"...