Endocrine Abstracts

Background: The Covid 19 pandemic has significantly changed people’s lives. For patients with chronic diseases, social isolation and distancing have become a provocative factor in metabolic control disorders of varying degrees. Patients avoided hospital visits as much as possible due to fear of infection. Also for the representatives of the medical field, the pandemic has become the basis for new ways of consulting patients (remote, teleconsultation). The aim of the study...

Introduction: Progressive hirsutism and moderate to severe male-pattern balding in women requires exclusion of an adrenal or ovarian tumor.Case presentation: A 51-year-old lady presented with excessive hair on her face and lower abdomen of 1 year duration which affected her quality of life. Her menopause started 3 years ago. Her body mass index was 28.6 kg/m2. She had hair on her upper lip, chin, and lower abdomen; she had a Ferriman–Gall...

Adjara is a region in Georgia with high level at iodine deficiency.The aim of the present work was to study the subclinical dysfunctions of thyroid gland in women older than 40 years whose thyroid state hadn’t been examined before.Materials and Methods: From 1998 to 2005 693 women aged 40–78 had been examined. Primary examination was done by different specialists.All women were tested on thyreotropi...