Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Secondary osteoporosis is defined as bone loss caused or exacerbated by other clinical disorders. Secondary osteoporosis can be due to a wide range of medical disorders, including endocrine disorders and genetic disorders. We are presenting a clinical case which the patient diagnosed as acute intermittent porphyria while being investigated for secondary osteoporosis.Clinical Case: 41-year-old female patient applied with bone and back pain, ...

The patient had been diagnosed with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) at age 5 because of precocious of puberty. He had been receiving dexamethazone and fludrocortisone therapy over the course of his life. When he was 16 years old, a scrotal ultrasound had been performed for the evaluation of bilateral testicular pain which revealed multiple sharply marginated, hypoechoic masses throughout both testes. A biopsy of left testis had been reported as ‘Leidig cell tumour&#1...

Introduction: The incidence rate of 45X / 46XY karyotype and variants has been reported as 1 / 15,000 live births and is rare. The phenotypic spectrum of patients with 45X / 46XY varies widely from women with Turner syndrome to normal androgenized men. In adult male infertility studies, 45X / 46XY karyotype cases diagnosed as a result of genetic screening have been reported. However, there are case reports showing that, despite their normal appearance, these patients may have ...

Diabetes is one of the risk factors for Achilles tendon rupture. Tendon thickening and impaired collagen organization have been reported in diabetic patients in small studies. In this report, we present the rupture of the Achilles tendon in a female patient with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus and diabetic neuropathy. A 52-years-old woman with a medical history of diabetes treated by intensive insulin therapy, developed pain in the right heel without previous trauma. The p...

İntroduction: Gitelman syndrome is characterized with hypokalemia, hypomagnesemia, hypocalciuria, metabolic alkalosis and neurological symptoms like muscle weakness. The association of GS and type 1 diabetes is rare, only described in a few case reports. We report a patient with unusual combination of Gitelman syndrome, Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus whose presentation was erytrocytosis.Case: A 26-year old male was diagnosed as Gitelman’s syndrome 5...

Introduction: Thyroid dysfunctions and autoimmunity may concur in the pathogenesis of hemostasis abnormalities. Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) is a frequently chronic autoimmune disease in thyroid gland. The aim of our study were to comparison the hemostatic parameters in patients with HT and control subjects.Method: A total of 52 women were evaluated. Age, TSH, free T3, free T4, anti M, anti Tg, TAFI, TFPI, PAI-1, tPA, PF-4, fib...

A 44-year-old man with 6 months history of headache, fatique, depressive mood, anorexia, impotence, decreased libido, poliuria and polidypsia. The results of the physical examination were normal, except the patient had noduler guatr. Baseline hormonal investigations and dinamic tests showed panhypopituitarism and partial central diabetes insipidus. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the pituitary gland showed enlarged pituitary gland and a marked thickening (4.5 mm) of the in...

Aim: In our study, in regard with the women cases of obesity, we have aimed at determining the correlation that existed among the anemia markers, insulin resistance (IR) and fact of Metabolic syndrome (MetS).Method: We have conducted our assessment 67 women who had resorted to our clinic due to their obesity complaints and were in the premenopausal and mean age 36.7±8.8 years. We have put forward the demographic data and measured the biochemical (fa...

Aim: Hypoadiponectinemia is known to be associated with insulin resistance, diabetes and obesity. Since gestational diabetes is together with increased body mass index (BMI) and decreased insulin sensitivity, the evaluation of adiponectin levels in these patients is interesting. We investigated the relationship between adiponectin and glucose tolerance during pregnancy and after delivery.Materials and methods: We evaluated plasma adiponectin levels, insu...

Subacute thyroiditis is a painful disease of the thyroid gland characterized with granulomatous inflammation. Adalimumab is a human monoclonal anti TNF antibody used in the treatment of several autoimmune diseases. Here we report a case of subacute thyroiditis associated with adalimumab treatment for ankylosing spondylitis. A 42 year old female patient was admitted to the hospital for fever, chills and neck pain radiating to the right ear. She was diagnosed with ankylosing spo...