Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: The present study aimed to evaluate thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) levels and anti-thyroid peroxidase antibodies (anti-TPOab) in euthyroid subjects with metabolic syndrome (MetS) and to compare them with healthy subjects without MetS.Design: Study included 173 subjects consisted of 96 subjects with MetS and 77 healthy controls. Gender, age, body mass index (BMI), waist circumfrence (WC), and detailed medical history of all participants were...

Introduction: In this study we aimed to examine the risk factors associated with mortality of pneumonia among diabetic seniors in Turkish general population.Material and methods: After excluding individuals from other minorities, elderly diabetic patients who had been hospitalized due to pneumonia in recent three years consisted of study population. A total of 610 subjects aged 65 years or older were retrospectively analyzed and 196 patients who had no m...

Aim: Euthyroid sick syndrome can be described as abnormal findings on thyroid function tests that occur in the setting of a nonthyroidal illness (NTI) without preexisting hypothalamic-pituitary and thyroid gland dysfunction. In this study we tried to compare thyroid function tests between patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) and healthy controls.Materials and Methods: This study consisted of 31 patients with AKI and 26 healthy controls. All patients&#...

Lymphocytic infundibuloneurohypophysitis (LINH) is rarely reported due to lymphocyte infiltration in the neurohypophysis. Causes of central diabetes insipidus include idiopathic diabetes insipidus (DI), primary or secondary tumors or infiltrative diseases (such as Langerhans cell histiocytosis, lymphocytic hypophysitis), neurosurgery and trauma.Case: A 59-year-old female patient presented with complaints of fatigue for 1 month, dry mouth and drinking a l...