Endocrine Abstracts

Neonatal diabetes, is monogenic and can be due to different mutations. Here we report two patients with neoanatal diabetes, with two different mutations and treatments.Case 1 was a female infant of consanguineous parents born at 37 weeks of gestation with a birth weight of 1900 g. After birth she was followed for respiratory distress and hyperglycemia. Her blood glucose was controlled with glargine insulin and with rapid acting insulin when needed. Her p...

Objective: Hyperprolactinemia is a rare endocrine disorder in childhood, which may be due to various etiological factors and may present with different signs and symptoms. We aimed to evaluate the etiologic reasons, clinical features and outcome in hyperprolactinemia patients retrospectively.Method: Data from 25 patients who were followed up with hyperprolactinemia between years 2009 and 2017 were evaluated.Results: A total of 25 p...

Introduction: Feochromositoma is a rare neuroendocrine tumor derived from chrommaffin cells of adrenal medulla. The most characteristic clinical symptoms are headache, perspiration, palpitation, and paroxysismal hypertension. Childhood feochromositoma is generally genetic while it is mostly sporadic in adults. Here we report three feochromositoma cases in whom two had von Hippel Lindau syndrome (VHLs).Case 1: 10 years old girl with admitted with fever. H...

BackgroundNeonatal diabetes mellitus is a rare form of monogenic diabetes which is diagnosed in the first six months of life. Eight patients with neonatal diabetes presenting to a single centre were studied for clinical presentation, genetics and treatment outcomes.Objective: Eight children (2 f/6m) presenting to a single centre in Turkey were studied for correlation of disease with clinical features and genetics, suitability of current ...