Endocrine Abstracts

‘Nondippers’ are individuals with absence of anticipated nocturnal decrease in blood pressure (BP) and increased incidence of target organ damage. The pathogenesis of nondipper hypertension is not clear at present. We aimed to investigate the effect of overt and subclinical hypothyroidism on the development of nondipper blood pressure pattern via 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. One hundred and nine normotensive patients with overt and subclinical hypoth...

Objective: Serum total sialic acid(SA) concentration is assessed as an up to date risk indicator of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases.Methods: It was aimed to investigate about how SA levels are effected in overt or subclinical hypothyroidism (SH) and how it’s associated with other atherosclerosis risk factors because there is no study about these topics, though SA is intensively studied in recent years.Patients: Six...

Insulin autoimmune syndrome (IAS) is a rare cause of hypoglycemia and characterized with autoantibodies to insulin in a patient without prior exposure to exogenous insulin. Medications with sulfydryl group and autoimmune diseases are known to be associated with this syndrome. Nearly 90% of the cases were reported in Japanese patients. We presented a Turkish patient with insülin autoimmune syndrome possibly caused by α-lipoic acid. A 62-year-old woman was admitted to ...

Objective: In differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC), TSH suppression with levothyroxine (L-T4) is a standard treatment for reducing tumor recurrence after total thyroidectomy. This study aims to evaluate the effect of long-term TSH suppression on the development of sarcopenia and frailty in elderly patients with DTC.Method: Seventy patients aged 60 years and older with stable TSH levels during the last year and under L-T4 due to DTC were included in the...

Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage has been reported to be associated with hypopituitarism. Also, internal carotid artery coil embolisation for aneurysmal hemorrhage is a rare cause of hypopituitarism. 58-year-old female patient who admitted to Emergency Department of Gazi University Medical Faculty due to visual loss and severe headache that did not respond to analgesics accompanied by nausea-vomiting starting 4–5 days ago. Sixth cranial nerve paralysis and bilateral tem...