Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Recent studies indicate that patients diagnosed with adrenal incidentaloma may present with cardiovascular disease. The aim of this study was to investigate markers of subclinical cardiovascular disease in patients with adrenal incidentaloma and healthy control group.Methods: This study included 50 patients with non-functional adrenal adenoma and 30 healthy controls. BMI and waist circumference of the patients were measured. The lipid param...

Objective: Diabetic retinopathy was one of the important complications of diabetes both in type 1 or type 2 and cause blindness. High lipid levels was accused of endotheial dysfunction and so play a role in retinal exudate formation in retinopathy. The aim of this study was to acess the association between serum lipid levels and diabetic retinopathy.Methods: Our study was carried out retrospectively in Istanbul Medeniyet University Goztepe Training and R...

Objectives: Diabetic nephropathy is a common complication of diabetes. It can be a cause of abnormal lipoprotein metabolism and may be had an negative impact on metaboic control in diabetics. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of diabetic nephropathy on lipid profiles of adult type 1 diabetics.Methods: Our study was carried out retrospectively in Istanbul Medeniyet University Goztepe Training and Research Hospital between 2012 and 2013. The...

Aims: To document clinical associations of perceived well-being (PWB) in obese subjectsMethods: Prospectively collected ‘Obesity Polyclinic’ database was retrospectively analyzed for the answers of the questionnaries fullfilled during the initial evaluation for obesity. After exclusion unavailable cases, the answers to the question ‘how do you describe your general health/well-being? i) very well ii) well iii) <e...

Objective: Altered hearing function in diabetic patients has been found in both pure tone audiometry and otoacoustic emissions (OAEs). We intended to evaluate the cochlear function with both DPOAE and TEOAE in patients with DM without polyneuropathy and hypertension.Patients and methods: Study group consisted of type 2 diabetic patients and healthy control group consisted of healthy age and sex matched volunteers. Detailed ear examination, pure tone audi...

Introduction: Adrenal schwannoma is an extremely uncommon cause of incidentaloma. It originates from neural sheath Schwann cells of the adrenal gland. Herein, we report a case of left adrenal schwannoma that could not be diagnosed preoperatively.Case report: A 53 years old female morbid obese (BMI: 66.68 kg/m2) patient was referred to endocrinology policlinic because of 5 cm left adrenal mass detected on abdominal screening while preparing pat...

Parathormon treatment for osteoporosis is rarely complicated with hypercalcemia. Vitamin D treatment with high doses frequently can cause asymptomatic intoxication.We present a case with life-threatening hypercalcemia complicated both parathormon and high-dose vitamin D.A 85-year old woman hospitalized for sudden-onset confusion. In history she had coronary-artery by-pass operation and a serebrovascular accedant. She was treated with teriparatide 20 &#95...

Introduction: Adverse pregnancy outcomes have been associated with maternal thyroid dysfunction. However, optimizing the best threshold value to improve maternal and perinatal outcomes and alleviate complications by establishing population-based gestation-specific reference intervals (RIs) instead of using recommended universal cut-off values, especially for thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), is still an ongoing debate. The aim of this study was to compare the prevalence and r...

Background: Treatment of vitamin D deficiency orinappropriate vitamin D supplementation may cause side effects associated with hypercalcemia. We observed a tendency to use very high single dose cholecalciferol for treatment of vitamin D deficiency.Aim: The primary aim of this study was to examine the clinical characteristics of patientswith very high serum 25OHD levels of vitamin D toxicity in Turkey.Materials and methods: An invit...