Endocrine Abstracts

Aim: Thyroid hormones act both insulin agonistic and antagonistic in different organs. Studies that evaluate the relationship between insulin resistance and hypo-hyperthyroidism have conflicting results, even euthyroid status was shown to change insulin sensitivity. In this study, our aim is to investigate the association between TSH, free T4, free T3 levels and insulin resistance in euthyroid patients.Method: Euthyroid 57 males, 47...

Introduction: Hemochromatosis is an iron storage disease characterized by iron deposition in parenchymal cells due to increased intestinal iron absorption. Iron overload leads to tissue damage and dysfunction particularly in the liver, pancreas, heart, joints, and pituitary gland. Panhypopituitarism is a clinical condition in which the anterior pituitary gland hormones are deficient. Herein we report a very rare case of panhypopituitarism due to hemochromatosis.<p class="a...

Background and aim: Thyroid gland is considered to be rare site of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (tbc), even in countries with a high prevalance. The aim of this study is to ases the correlation between thyroid nodules and pulmonary tbc with fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) and to find out the incidence of thyroid gland tbc.Material and methods: The main purpose of this study is to find out tbc incidence in pulmonary tbc patients with thyroid nodules...