Endocrine Abstracts

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...

Aim: Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) positivity is usually determined in medium and large vessel vasculitis. This antibody has two different forms. Cytoplasmic ANCA (PR3-ANCA) occurs against proteinase-3, while perinuclear ANCA (MPO-ANCA) occurs against myeloperoxidase and bactericidal- permeability increasing proteins. The presence of ANCA is mostly seen in systemic vasculitis and also in drug induced vasculitis. There is no sufficient data about prevalence of posi...

Aim: Neopterin is a mareker of inflammation secreted from monocytes and macrophages. It is found to be increased in malignant diseases. The aim this study was to evaluate the urine neopterin levels in thyroid cancer.Materials and methods: Sixty nine patients with thyroid cancer, 76 patients with benign thyroid pathology and 33 healthy subjects were evaluated. First morning urine samples were collected from the patients and the normal subjects for neopter...