Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Waardenburg syndrome is known as an inherited disorder associated with sensorineural deafness and pigmentary abnormalities affecting the skin, hair, and eye. There are rare case reports of Waardenburg syndrome with diabetes mellitus in the literature.Case: A 9-years-old boy from consanguineous family was admitted to pediatric endocrine department because of fasting and postprandial hyperglycemia. In the medical history, it was learned that hi...

Wolfram syndrome, rare neurodegenerative disorder, is known to be DIDMOAD (diabetes insipidus, diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy and deafness). There are rare case reports of Wolfram syndrome with chronic renal failure in the literature.A 19-year-old male patient was admitted to our pediatric emergency department because of headache, chest pain and diurnal and nocturnal enuresis. He had been diagnosed with ...

Background: Central diabetes insipidus (CDI) presents with various underlying diagnoses in children.Objective: To determine causes of CDI and long-term outcome in children and adolescents from a Tertiary Paediatric Endocrinology unit providing Regional Paediatric Neurosurgery and head trauma services.Methods: The clinic database was searched to identify patients with CDI managed between 1993 and 2019. Relevant clinical information ...

Purpose: This study aims to compare serum urocortin-3 levels in women with PCOS and healthy women, and establish what role urocortin-3 levels play in PCOS.Methods: Fifty-two patients with PCOS and 55 healthy women were included in the study, matched for age and BMI. Fasting blood glucose (FBG), insulin, hs-CRP, urocortin-3, and free testosterone levels of the all participants were measured. HOMA-IR was used to calculate the insulin resistance.<p clas...