Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Papillary thyroid carcinoma is the most common type of thyroid cancer (70-80% of all thyroid cancer). It is a differentiated type of carcinoma, it affects women between 30-60 years old, 3 times more often than males. Clinical outcome in patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma is often favorable. Glucocorticoids (GC) play major role in the physiologic stress response. However chronic exposure to glucocorticoids as seen in Cushing’s disease (CD) has det...

Background: Hypertension is a common condition that affects many people all over the world. It could be associated with several complications especially in cases of resistant hypertension. Many clinical practice guidelines recommend screening for primary aldosteronism especially in persons with resistant hypertension owing to the worse prognosis when compared with blood pressure-matched essential hypertension.Objective: The study aimed to screen for prim...

Background: Polycystic ovary syndrome is a long lasting, complex, hormonal condition associated with microvascular endothelial dysfunction and strongly related to CIMT changes at an early age. ED represents an initial reversible step in atherogenesis development, so early clinical identification of ED may play a pivotal in the prevention or reversal of progression to atherosclerosis. Also, CIMT is considered as an early marker of atherosclerosisObjective...