Endocrine Abstracts

Patients with acromegaly have 2–3 fold increased mortality from cardiovascular diseases. It is associated with elevated growth hormone (GH) levels. Alterations of acute phase proteins, observed in patients with acromegaly, could lead to increased cardiovascular mortality. There are limited data on influences of GH excess on acute phase reactants.The aim of the study was to evaluate selected acute phase proteins levels: fibrinogen and C-reactive prot...

Pituitary tumor is a rare endocrine disorder. In the majority of cases, they are secreting prolactin and/or GH. Pituitary metastatic tumors are localized more often in the nervous than adenomatous hypophysis. Lung, breast and large intestine cancers metastases are found in the pituitary in the most cases. They cause hypopituitarism and local complications. The most often complications found are an optic nerve chiasm pressure or infiltration with a visual field loss, cavernous ...

We report the case of 57-year-old man with end-stage renal disease, primary hyperparathyroidism and after an surgery of upper parathyroid glands with ectopic parathyroid localized in lung. Patient was directed to our hospital to perform diagnostics on hyperparathyroidism. Two years earlier (2011) patient was hospitalized because of weakness and weight loss, and was diagnosed with primary hyperparathyroidism. In 2012 he underwent the bilateral parathyroidectomy of upper glands ...