Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Parathyroid carcinoma is a rare malignancy of the parathyroid glands. Parathyroid carcinoma may be suspected, but it usually cannot be confirmed prior to operation.Case: A 35-year-old male was consulted to Endocrinology department with persistant kidney stones. He was operated five times in 10 years for recurrent kidney stones.His lab results are as follows; Ca:13(8.8–10.6), P:2.2 mg/dl(2.5–4.5), ALP:84U/L(3...

Introduction: Autoimmune Polyglandular Syndrome (APS) is a very rare endocrinopaty, characterized by the coexistence of at least two glandular autoimmune mediated diseases. In this case a patient presented with hyperpigmentation of the whole body, significant weight loss for last 6 months.Case: A-49 year old male were refered to our deparment with loss of appetite, fatigue, nausea, weight loss and with marked buccal pigmentation. Blood pressure was 80/50...

Introduction: Parathyroid adenomas appear typically as homogeneous, hypoechoic lesions compared to the thyroid on the ultrasonography examination. They can be detected easily when they are more than 1 cm. However, cystic parathyroid adenomas are rare. When present, they appear as decreased echogenic areas in the gland. Extrathyroidal feeding from an artery at one pole of the gland is characteristic which is seen on Doppler imaging. We aimed to present a case series including s...

Objective: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the most important cause of mortality in acromegaly patients. Noninvasive assessment of aortic stiffness which can be used as an predictor of atherosclerosis, may be of benefit in acromegaly patients for early diagnosis of CVD. We evaluated the aortic elasticity parameters of acromegalic patients in remission and compared with healthy controls.Methods and results: Study subjects consisted of 20 patients with a...

Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) seen in 10–70% of patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM1) has a significant risk of mortality. We present a DKA in a patient with DM1 resulted in hypokalemia related ECG abnormalities that the diagnosis needed to be differentiated from acute coronary syndrome. A 18-year-old women without any significant past medical history admitted to hospital with a two day history of fatique, weakness, nausea, vomiting. Patient appeared hipovolemic. Vit...

Aims: Primary hyperparathyroidism (PH) has been reported to be associated with increased insulin resistance, hypertension, dyslipidemia and cardiovascular inflammatory markers. The aims of this study were to evaluate the rate of metabolic syndrome (MS) and effect of parathormone, calcium and phosphorus levels to MS components in PH subjects.Methods: One hundred and fifty one subjects, 23 men and 128 women, aged 53±11.2 years with newly diagnosed PH ...

Aim: Overt hypothyroidism affects mostly women with an increased prevalence in individuals by age. Hypothyroidism is associated with accelerated atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases, possibly caused by the higher incidence of hyperlipidemia, insulin resistance, hypertension which all are associated to hypothyroidism. Heart-type fatty acid binding protein (H-FABP) is specific for cardiomyocytes and a sensitive marker of myocardial injury. The purpose of this study is examini...