Endocrine Abstracts

Purpose: In this study, we aimed at determining the dynamic thiol/disulfide homeostasis and oxidant balance, and investigating the relation of these parameters to the severity of the disease and the serum calcium levels.Material and method: 55 patients with iatrogenic hypoparathyroidism follow-ups, and 40 healthy volunteers were included in the study. The blood dynamic thiol/sulfide balance, Total Antioxidant Status (TAS), Total Oxidant Status (TOS), Par...

Purpose: Hyperinsulinemia is the metabolic change, which is related to the cochleovestibular diseases the most. It is thought that undiagnosed deafness is highly probable in individuals with prediabetic hyperinsulinemia. We aimed at investigating the results of hearing function test in hyperinsulinemic individuals.Material and Method: 164 patients were included in the study, which was designed as a prospective research, 76 of which were in case group and...

Aim: In our study, we aimed at investigating cardiovascular risk predictability by conducting arterial stiffness measurement in patients with idiopathic hyperprolactinemia.Material – Method: The biochemical parameters and arterial stiffness analyses of 54 patients with idiopathic hyperprolactinemia, who had applied to our polyclinic in 2017 and 2018, and 55 healthy volunteers having similar characteristics with regard to age, sex and body mass index...

Serum CA 19-9 (carbohydrate antigen 19-9) is a tumor marker of monosialoganglioside structure. Its level is frequently measured for screening purposes in daily practice by physicians, while its main use is in the study of tumor recurrence and follow-up of recurrences. Although significant elevations in CA 19-9 levels cause suspicion of malignancy, an underlying malignant disease may not always be determined and benign pathologies may also be seen. A 45-year-old female patient ...

Objective: Muslims worship by fasting from pre-dawn (suhoor) until sunset (iftar) for 30 days in the religious month of Ramadan. In addition to prolonged hunger, patients fasting with a diagnosis of hypothyroidism take their doses of levothyroxine outside of daytime fasting hours. This study compares thyroid functions of fasting hypothyroidism patients with the values before Ramadan.Methods: One hundred patients aged 18–65 years were included in the...

Objective: In chronic hypoparathyroidism, conventional therapy consists of oral calcium supplements and active vitamin D analogs but some patients cannot achieve treatment goals despite the high dose of oral calcium supplementation. Therefore, parathyroid gland transplantation and recombinant human PTH have been investigating as new therapeutic options. Calcium absorption from intestinal cells occurs by transcellular path and paracellular path. Transcellular absorption occurs ...

Objective: The aim of our study was to determine whether there is a relationship between oxidative stress parameters and subacute thyroiditis.Material and methods: The study included 55 subacute thyroiditis patients and 30 healthy volunteers. Total antioxidant status (TAS), total oxidant status (TOS), paraoxonase (PON) and thiol/disulfide homeostasis parameters were measured by a novel and automated assay in the patient and control groups.<p class="a...

Hypoparathyroidism is a rare endocrine disorder whose epidemiologic characteristics regarding the cause, clinical course, acute and chronic complications have not been well defined. There is also a substantial geographic variability regarding those parameters, and country-specific local data is scarce.This study was conducted to assess the baseline characteristics, including the demographics, etiologic distribution, disease severity, medications use...