Endocrine Abstracts

The association of acromegaly and end stage renal disease was not reported before. Here, we present a case of 57 years old male patient who had been followed with the diagnosis of 13 years of acromegaly and 18 years of type 2 diabetes at another center until 2005 when he was admitted to our outpatient clinic. He had been operated for a pituitary macroadenoma 13 years ago and followed without treatment for acromegaly. He was treated with long acting insulin and he was metabolic...

Acromegaly is usually caused by a GH-secreting pituitary adenoma. Although fertility is frequently impaired, pregnancy can be possible due to improvement in diagnosis and treatment modalities. Tumour enlargement and nontumoral lactotroph enlargement related with pregnancy can compress the optic chiasm and cause visual impairment. Optimal management of acromegaly during pregnancy is not well established. In this paper our experience about the clinical, laboratory, radiologic da...

Background and aim: HDR syndrome, is a rare disease characterized with hypoparathyroidism, sensorineural deafness, and renal disease. Patients usually present with hypocalcaemia, tetany, or afebrile convulsions. Hearing loss is usually bilateral. Renal disease includes renal dysplasia, hypoplasia or aplasia. We report a Turkish family of HDR syndrome.Cases: A 56-year-old hypocalcemic deaf male patient and his daughter (25 years) and son (21 years) with h...

Background and aim: Adrenal incidentalomas are discovered incidentally. Incidence has been increasing proportionally to the use of radiographic imaging. We aimed to evaluate patients with adrenal incidentalomas demographically.Subjects and methods: This study was performed between January 2010 and February 2013. Total 320 patients (55.4±11.7 years) with adrenal incidentaloma (86 (26.8%) male (55.2±11.6 years) and 234 (73.1%) female (56.2±1...

Background and aim: Incidence of adrenal incidentaloma is increasing proportionally to the use of radiographic imaging and there were two questions that whether malignant or functional. We aimed to evaluate patients with adrenal incidentalomas in terms of malignancy.Subjects and methods: This study was performed between 2010 and 2013. From 320 patients with adrenal incidentaloma, total 52 patients who underwent surgical intervetion were evaluated. Indica...

Background and aim: Differentiated thyroid cancers are the most common endocrine cancer types. They are more common in women, but the prognosis tends to be poorer with men. We aimed to evaluate male and female patients with differentiated thyroid cancer.Subjects and methods: This retrospective study was performed in last 5 yearly hospital records of our hospital. All data about the patients’ conditions were obtained from hospital information system ...

Background and aims: Pheochromocytomas arise from chromaffin cells of adrenal medulla and sympathetic ganglia. It occurs in about 0.05 to 0.1% of patients with sustained hypertension. It is considered that about half the patients with pheochromocytoma have only paroxysmal hypertension. Pheochromocytoma is usually suggested by the history in a symptomatic patient, discovery of an incidental adrenal mass, or the family history in a patient with familial disease. We retrospective...