Endocrine Abstracts

The Republic of Belarus gained 20 years of experience in teaching patients self-control of diabetes mellitus and hypothyroidism.Learning technique consists of work in small groups (5 to 6 people). Patients with newly diagnosed disease are subjects to training (one step). Then weekly at outpatient clinics they attend classes on specific subjects (duration of class is 1 hr). Each class consists of a short lecture, analysis of clinical cases, a class discus...

The results of treatment of 72 patients with endocrine ophthalmopathy in the Clinical Hospital No. 10 in Minsk during 2 years are presented. Thyroid pathology was detected in 63 patients (87.5%): in 39 (54.2%) - Graves disease, in 24 (33.3%) - autoimmune thyroiditis. All patients with Graves’ disease received thyrostatic therapy; 10 persons developed ophthalmopathy after thyroidectomy. 11 patients with autoimmune thyroiditis had hypothyroidism and received levothyroxine, ...

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy, safety and to determine the criteria for the glucocorticoid therapy scheme: intravenous pulse therapy followed by tablet form in prolonged regime in the treatment of active phase of endocrine ophthalmopathy (EOP).Materials and methods: 28 patients of both sexes (52 eyes) with endocrine ophthalmopathy in the active phase were included in the study. The average age – 43.4±10.6 years. The duration of the diseas...

Hyponatremia - a decrease in serum sodium to 135 mmol/l or less can lead to serious complications. In patients with various pathologies and serum sodium levels of 120–125 mmol/l mortality reaches 23%, in levels less than 115 mmol/l - 50%. Biochemical verification of hyponatremia is not difficult. It is difficult to establish the cause and treatment of chronic hyponatremia. Patient S., 64 years old, was hospitalized in a state of alcoholic intoxication with a diagnosis of ...

Aim: To investigate the impact of overall obesity (Ob) and diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM2) on arterial stiffness and degree of insulin resistance in patients with arterial hypertension (AH) and abdominal Ob (AOb).Design and method: 74 subjects were divided according to presence of AH, AOb, Ob, and DM2 without insulin therapy. Control group 1 consisted of 26 subjects without AH, AOb, Ob, and DM2. All patients with AH were also diagnosed with AOb and amount...

Introduction: To assess the effectiveness of treatment of obesity using complex integrated approach. In the treatment of obesity were used: instructions of patient in healthy eating habits, diet, taking medication that reduces fat absorption – lipid-adsorbent tablets, polyglucosamine (L112). Survey of patients was conducted. The received data were analysed.Description of methods: 61 obese patients (18 males and 43 females) were followed up for 12 we...

Introduction & BackgroundA COVID-19 pandemic smashed the world not only by it`s severity, but also by the tremendous amount of comorbidities, many of them having autoimmune basis. Thyrotoxicosis as one of the above - could result either from SARS-CoV-2 directly infecting the thyroid gland, as described in other viral infections, or can develop due to immune overactivation during the severe viral load. Subacute thyroiditis (SAT) is a self-limiting inf...