Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Thyroid lymphoma is a rare disease. Furthermore, coincidence of extrathyroidal lymphoma is very rare.Case: A 69 years-old woman patient was admitted to the hospital with dyspnea, hoarse voice and swelling of throat for a month. In her history, she had been diagnosed as gastric lymphoma 6 years ago, while she was being investigated for upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Six cures of chemotherapy has been applied. She was not on follow up. In p...

Metastatic infiltration of the adrenal glands is a common finding of malignancies, but few case reports showed primary adrenal insufficiency being the presenting manifestation of underlying malignant tumors. Here, we report a case of adrenal insufficiency secondary to metastases from lung adenocarcinoma.A 69-year-old man was admitted to emergency department with weakness, altered mental status, hypotension, fever and weight loss. He had 100 pack-year his...

Hyperthyroidism whether endogenous or exogenous in origin causes hemodynamic changes which associated with adverse cardiovascular outcomes. Ambulatory arterial Stiffness index (AASI) is a non invasive way of measuring arterial stiffness. Short term BP variability is derived from 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) recordings. BP variability and AASI are associtaed with increased cardiovascular risk.We aimed to investigate AASI and short t...