Endocrine Abstracts

Purpose: Steroid usage may cause hyperglycaemia in non-diabetic patients. We aimed to detect the onset of hyperglycaemia and the best time for glucose measuring over a short time span (1–5 days) in non-diabetic patients who commenced moderate or high dose steroid therapy.Methods: Electronic data of patients, who were commenced moderate or high dose steroid therapy (15–60 mg prednisolone or equivalent dose methyl prednisolone) due to inflammator...

Central nervous system involvement is observed in 5-14% of Behçet’s disease and this form is called neurobehçet syndrome (NBS). There are two main forms of CNS involvement in Neurobehçet syndrome, in which parenchymal involvement and vascular involvement are prominent. Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT), the most prominent form of vascular involvement, has been reported in 8% in Behçet’s disease and in approximately 18% in NBS. Although CVT is the m...