Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: We aim to detect co-occurence of uterine myomas, thyroid nodules and breast lesions in premenoposual women with menstruel disorders and investigate association between these benign tumors with anabolic hormon levels.Design: Records of 8008 premenopausal women were analyzed who had been admitted to the hospital for routine breast image investigation which was performed by the same radiologist in between 2010 and 2015.Stud...

Objective: Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome (MRKH) is a very rare congenital anomaly characterised by vaginal agenesis and a spectrum of different genitourinary tract anomalies. Typical form of this syndrome is characterised by congenital absence of the uterus and upper 2/3 vagina with normal ovaries and fallopian tubes and atypical form of the syndrome is associated with anomalies of the ovaries and fallopian tubes and renal anomalies.Case r...

A 37-year-old patient with a history of transcranial pituitary surgery because of acromegaly was referred to our clinic with the glucose level 731 mg/dl. she was not using any medication. There was no ketone in the urine and HbA1c was 18.6%. She has 17×16×15 mm of residual macroadenoma on pıtuıtary MRI with level of GH 17.5 ng/ml and IGF-1 422 ng/ml. She was using 140 units of insulin glargin U300 and 100 units of insulin regular per a day before octreotide...

Introduction: Many endocrinopathies such as acromegaly, Cushing’s syndrome (CS), pheomochromocytom and lipodystrophia can be associated with insülin resistance and unregulated diabetes mellitus (DM).Case report: A 37 –year- and 2 months pregnant women admitted to our out patient clinic for regulation of hyperglycemia. On physical examination; Blood Pressure: 140/95 mmHg, Body Mass Index: 31 kg/m2, central obesity, acanthosis nig...

Background: In the presence of specific symptoms and signs, Cushing’s syndrome (CS) may be easily recognised. On the other hand, in overweight and obese patients without typical features of CS, diagnosis may be omitted. Our aim was to evaluate the prevalence of CS among overweight and obese patients.Methods: We enrolled 264 overweight and obese patients who has not overt CS clinical features between January 2012 and December 2014 at Ankara Numune Ed...

Association between idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (IHH) and atherosclerotic disease in young males remains unclear. The present study aimed to determine the effect of improving the testosterone level on cardiovasculary (CV) risk markers in young males with IHH.Materials and methods: The study included 19 non-obese males with IHH and 17 healthy controls. The patients were treated with hCG therapy (n=8) or testosterone replacement (...

Introduction: Multifocal sclerosing thyroiditis (MST) is a recently proposed histopathological diagnosis for thyroidectomy specimens that have ≥1 radial scar-like foci. Despite the inclusion of the term thyroiditis, MST is not related to other well-known types of thyroiditis and does not have a specific clinical presentation.Case report: A 30-year-old female presented clinic due to thyrotoxicosis. She did not have any symptoms related to thyrotoxic...

Introduction: Gardner syndrome (GS) have very different extraintestinal manifestations such as include osteomas and thyroid cancers. Thyroid carcinomas associated with familial adenomatozis polyposis coli (FAP), are typically bilateral and multifocal. Our case presenting that GS included Graves’ disease (GD) and aggressive varyant of PTC.Case report: A 43-year-old men admitted to our out patient clinic for thyrotoxicosis investigation. He was compla...

Purpose: Adrenal incidentalomas (AIs) are adrenal masses, which are found on imaging studies not performed related to an adrenal problem. Hepatic incidental masses and renal incidental masses are usually seen in abdominal imaging methods. We aim to investigate the frequency and the kind of hepatic and renal incidental masses in patients with AIs.Methods: Retrospective evaluation of 381 (245 female and 136 male) AI patients and 285 (168 female and 117 mal...

Objective: To determine whether relationship between trace element levels and microvascular complications of type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM).Methods: One hundred eighteen patients with type 2 DM (mean age: 56±6.2 years) and 40 control subjects (mean age: 40.0±8.8 years) were included in the study. Group 1 (n=40 patients) was composed of patients with no had microvascular complications and it divided into two subgroup, first subgroup (<...