Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Although the cause and effect relationship between the hypophyseal deficiency and osteoporosis is known well, the number of studies concerning bone mineral density (BMD) in patients with Sheehan’s syndrome (SS) are scarce. We aimed to investigate the relationship between BMD and deficient hormones in patients with newly-diagnosed Sheehan’s syndrome.Material and methods: Thirty-four patients with SS and age-gender-weight matched 22...

Primary mediastinal ectopic goiters are very rare and comprise about 1% of all mediastinal tumors. Blood supply of primary mediastinal goiter comes from local intrathoracic vessels. Compressing symptoms, diagnostic uncertainty, and the risk of malignancy support surgical excision.Case report: The patient is a 40-year-old woman with a 6-month history of progressive dyspnea, chest and back pain. Chest X-ray showed the left superior mediastinal mass was com...

Diffuse sclerosing variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma is a rare variant. It is usually seen in children and young adults.The thyroid gland is diffusely involved. It is characterized by scattered microscopic tumor islands, diffuse fibrosis, calcification, abundant lymphocytic infiltration and psammom body when compared with conventional papillary thyroid carcinoma. Usually the lesion does not cause mass but rather a dominant nodule in one lobe is present in 50% of cases. Ly...

Vitamin D has immunomodulatory features and its deficiency is associated with the development of autoimmune diseases. The relation between vitamin D deficiency and autoimmune thyroiditis has not been investigated much. In the present study, our aim was to study the relation between vitamin D therapy and autoimmune thyroiditis.Fifty-four patients having newly diagnosed Hashimoto thyroiditis (HT) and vitamin D deficiency but requiring no thyroid hormone re...

Introduction: Dopamine agonists such as cabergoline and bromocriptine are used in the treatment of hyperprolactinemia to provide normoprolactinemia, to improve gonodal functions and to decrease the size of tumour if there is. Besides common side effects, fibrosis is another rare side effect of dopamine agonists. Long-term use of these drugs has been reported to cause fibrotic changes in heart valves. In addition, there are a few case reports about dopamine agonist-related pleu...

Background: Plasma carnitine insufficiency has been caused muscle weakness. Carnitine levels and pulmonary functions were lower in patients with diabetes.Objective: To determine whether pulmonary functions are correlated with carnitine levels in patients with type 2 diabetes.Setting: Internal medicine outpatient clinic of a university hospital.Methods: Forty-nine patients with type 2 diabetes and 34 healthy c...