Endocrine Abstracts

Hypertygiceridemia is responsible from the 1–4% of acute pancreatitis cases. When serum triglyceride level rises above 1000–2000 mg/dl, risk of having acute pancreatitis also increases. Medical therapy is usually inadequate for treatment of hypertryglyceridemia cases which cause severe and recurrent pancreatitis attacks. In our case we have reported a patient having recurrent attacks under medical therapy and underwent plasmapheresis.Case: 45 y...

Introduction: Measles virus infections generally occur in childhood, but infections in adolescence and adulthood can lead to complications.Case report: A previously well 28-year-old woman had suffered from nausea, vomiting and generalized fatique for one day before being transferred to our emergency department in a confused state. A diagnosis of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) complicated by ketoacidosis was made based on markedly decreased serum C-peptid...

Aim: Hypogonadism is a result of testicular failure and/or insufficient pituitary stimulation. Various hypothalamo-pituitary abnormalities or lesions can contribute to hypogonadism. Benign or malign tumoural lesions of cellar or paracellar region, may lead to hypogonadism. Therefore, pituitary magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), is needed in hypogonadic patients. In our study, we aimed to investigate our hypogonadic patients’ hypothalamo-pituitary MRI findings.<p class=...