Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The awareness of osteoporosis is essantial of treatment. We investigated the awareness of osteoporosis in the patients with postmenopausal women in the region of Northeastern Anatolia.Methods: Four hundred and two patients with postmenopausal women was included in this study. We detected the age of menopause, the conscience of osteoporosis in the postmenopousal period, DEXA reports, habits of regular walking, drinking of milk, and used to v...

Introduction: Berardinelli Seip Congenital Lypodystrophy (BSCL) is a rare otosomal recessive disease characterized by major criteria which are lypoatrophy, acromegaloid features, hepatomegaly, hypertriglyceridemia, insulin resistance and minor citeria which are hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, psycomotor retardation, hirsutism, precocious puberty, long bone cysts, phlebomegaly. The presence of three major criteria or two major plus two minor criteria required for diagnosis of BSCL...

Introduction: Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) patients with distant metastasis (DM) have variable clinical forms. PTC mostly metastasizes to the regional cervical lymph node. Metastasis rate is approximately 20–90% available when diagnosed. In addition, the overall incidence of DM is approximately 10%. DM are usually to the lungs, bone and brain. Furthermore rarely liver, pancreas, skeletal muscle, adrenal gland, ovaries, sphenoid sinuses and submandibular gland metasta...

Introduction: Primary hyperparathyroidism (PHP) in pregnancy is very rare condition and the true incidence of PHP in pregnancy is not well known. PHP is associated with significant maternal and foetal morbidity and mortality. PHP is diagnosed based upon levels of blood calcium and parathyroid hormone (PTH) in normal renal function status. However diagnosis of PTH can be difficult, the physiological changes of pregnancy in calcium homeostasis such as maternal blood volume expan...

Introduction: Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most frequently occurring subtype of thyroid differentiated cancers. PTC frequently metastasizes to the cervical lymph node region and metastasis rate of approximately 20–90% is available when diagnosed. Distant metastasis are usually the lungs, bone and brain metastases. Furthermore rarely the adrenal gland, skeletal muscle, ovaries, submandibular gland, sphenoid sinuses, liver and pancreatic metastases can be occurr...

Introduction: Recent conducted studies show that clinical hypothyroidism (CH) has similar cardiovascular risk with subclinical hypothyroidism (SCH). Carotid intima media thickness (CIMT) that is an important marker of early atherosclerotic changes is an indicator of cardiovascular events. In our study, we evaluated CIMT in female patients, who have both CH and SCH, with similar age and demographic features.Materials and methods: We recruited 38 healthy f...