Endocrine Abstracts

Aim: Radioactive treatment after surgery forms the basis of treatment of differentiated thyroid cancers (DTC) and also used as permanent theraphy of hyperthyroidism. Iodide is being transported into the thyrocytes by the NIS system that located on the thyrocytes’ cell membran. NIS system also has been shown at the gastric mucosa. In this study we proposed to analyse the effect of low and high dose radio-iodine treatment on Helicobacter pylori eradication.<p cla...

Hypertygiceridemia is responsible from the 1–4% of acute pancreatitis cases. When serum triglyceride level rises above 1000–2000 mg/dl, risk of having acute pancreatitis also increases. Medical therapy is usually inadequate for treatment of hypertryglyceridemia cases which cause severe and recurrent pancreatitis attacks. In our case we have reported a patient having recurrent attacks under medical therapy and underwent plasmapheresis.Case: 45 y...

Introduction: Measles virus infections generally occur in childhood, but infections in adolescence and adulthood can lead to complications.Case report: A previously well 28-year-old woman had suffered from nausea, vomiting and generalized fatique for one day before being transferred to our emergency department in a confused state. A diagnosis of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) complicated by ketoacidosis was made based on markedly decreased serum C-peptid...

Introduction: The incidence of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) during pregnancy is quite low. There have been a few anecdotal reports of NHL that arises from the thyroid gland.Case Report: A 28-year-old female patient presented with a neck swelling, pain and respiratory distress while she was in the 17th week of her first pregnancy. Subtotal thyroidectomy was performed and combined histological and immunohistochemical analyses led to the diagnosis of diffuse ...