Endocrine Abstracts

Post-surgical hypoparathyroidism is most common cause of hypoparathyroidism develops after accidental damage to or removal of the parathyroid glands during surgery. Heart arrhythmias and fainting, even heart failure is reversible complications of hypoparathyroidism, due to low calcium levels. Long QT (LQT) interval may lead to syncope, cardiac arrest, or sudden death. The goal of hypoparathyrodisms treatment is to relieve symptoms and to normalize levels of calcium and phospho...

A pheochromocytoma is a rare, catecholamine-secreting tumor that may precipitate life-threatening hypertension. The tumor is malignant in 10% of cases. Although pheochromocytoma has classically been associated with von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) syndrome, multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 (MEN 2), and neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) there are now 10 genes that have been identified as sites of mutations leading to pheochromocytoma.Method and materials A case re...

Acromegaly is chronic disease caused by hypersecretion of growth hormone (GH), most common caused by adenoma of pituitary gland. Cardiovascular risk, respiratory complication and malignancy are more common in this patients. Most often onset is between 30 to 50 years old, equally between gender. Therapy is almost always surgery, it can be combined with radiotherapy and gamma knife. Medicament therapy with somatostatin analogues, dopamine agonists and GH receptor antagonist. Goa...