Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Both Transoral (TOETVA) and several Retroauricular approaches (e.g. EndoCATS) are described as feasible and safe procedures in the literature. The TOETVA enables angulation of instruments and provides a good working space by dividing the strap muscles in the first step. Therefor one should be able to dissect even larger specimen than the short incision in the lip allows to remove. However EndoCATS is a single port access with limited working space, but with good po...

Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is thought to result from the decreased of T helper type 2 (Th2) responses, leading to progressive destruction of thyrocytes. IFN-λ1, -λ2, and -λ3 (also known as IL-29, IL-28A, and IL-28B, respectively) is a recently described member of the IFN-λ family and has been shown to decrease production of Th2 cytokines in vitro. However, the role and mechanism of IFN-λ1 in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis remain unkno...

Objective: To analyse the semen quality in patients with newly diagnosed Hodgkin’s disease before starting the treatment.Materials and methods: We evaluated semen quality in 67 patients with Hodgkin’s disease who underwent sperm banking in our clinic over a 10-year period. Semen samples were collected by masturbation after 2–7 days of sexual abstinence. Age at banking, semen volume, sperm concentration, and total and progressive sperm moti...

BackgroundNeonatal diabetes mellitus is a rare form of monogenic diabetes which is diagnosed in the first six months of life. Eight patients with neonatal diabetes presenting to a single centre were studied for clinical presentation, genetics and treatment outcomes.Objective: Eight children (2 f/6m) presenting to a single centre in Turkey were studied for correlation of disease with clinical features and genetics, suitability of current ...

Homeostasis of the body weight is maintaining by the interactions between the different sections of the brain and peripheral tissues. Diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) is a method that investigates the microscopic motion of the water particules in tissues and also depends on measurement of the signal variations in tissues which is connected with the kinetic energy of the molecules called; molecular diffusion. The purpose of this work was to detect brain diffu...

Background and aimMicroRNAs (miRNA) are small nucleotide sequences that affect gene expression in cells at the posttranscriptional level. Some miRNAs behave like oncogenes, while others behave like tumor suppressors. In this study, it was aimed to investigate the role of miRNAs in tumor development and its effects on clinical and metabolic parameters of the patients with acromegaly.Methods39 patients diagnose...