Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Fibrates are widely used to manage dyslipidemia but these drugs can induce rhabdomyolysis with acute renal failure. Rhabdomyolysis is a skeletal muscle cell damage condition associated with the release of toxic components of the cells and to the end;renal failure. The onset of rhabdomyolisis can extend to 6 months with fibrate therapy. Some researchers purpose that the influenza vaccıne can induce the rhabdomyolisis in patients who receive myotoxic drugs.Her...

Aim: Neopterin has been found to be associated with disease activity in various infectious, inflammatory, and autoimmune diseases. It is an indicator of immune response as it is released after activation of monocytes and macrophages by IFN-γ. It was aimed to measure neopterin levels in Graves’ disease, which is a T cell-mediated autoimmune disease of the thyroid gland.Materials and Methods: Twelve healthy individuals (6 women, 6 men), 13 Graves...