Endocrine Abstracts

Cortex protecting surgery for bilateral pheochromocytoma protects the patient from adrenal insufficiency. Risk of relapse is low. 35 years old woman had paroxysmal seizures and hypertension crises for the last year which became more frequent in the last 10 days. She had thyroidectomy and under the use of levothyroxine the patient. Because of a nodule on ultrasonography and paternal history of MEN 2A which led to a check of calcitonin level that resulted 8 times higher than the...

Although primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) is seen in young women at 8/million ratio, it is more rare to be seen with pregnancy. If diagnosed and not treated during pregnancy, the mother may have nephrolithiasis, hypercalcemic crisis, hypertension, preeclampsia, pancreatitis, death and intrauterine growth retardation in the fetus, low birth weight, preterm delivery, intrauterine death or postpartum tetany. Forty-year-old woman at the 14th week of gestation was diagnosed with ...

Introduction: IgG4-dependent disease is a newly defined fibroinflammatory disease. This disease has been shown to affect almost all organs in the body, especially the pancreas, salivary gland, orbital tissue, lymph node, lung and kidney. IgG4 hypophysitis is a rare and inflammatory process that mimics pituitary tumors. The diagnosis of IgG4 releated hypophysitis can be done in many ways. The definitive diagnosis is biopsy; however, it is not necessary in most cases. If the oth...

Introduction: In our country, Sheehan syndrome is one of the most common causes of pituitary insufficiency in female patients.Case: A 54-year-old female patient developed cardiac arrest after an elective hip replacement surgery, and after 5 minutes of cardio pulmonary resuscitation, the rhythm returned to normal and the patient was intubated. Since she was hypotensive, she was given the infusion of noradrenaline after dopamine infusion, but despite this ...

Introduction: Since the thyroid myxedema coma is rarely seen nowadays, its diagnosis can be overlooked.Case: The patient with tracheostomy who underwent total laryngectomy and bilateral neck dissection and radiotherapy (RT) at the neck region 10 years ago due to Larynx cancer was admitted to the intensive care unit the diagnosis periorbital edema, hypotension, hypothermia, consciousness disorder and pneumosepsis. Treatment was started for Acinobacter, wh...

Introduction: Ectopic neurohypophysis is a congenital abnormality related to faulty embryogenesis resulting in incomplete caudal extension of the infundibulum. It may present itself with symptoms of growth hormone deficiency or panhypopituitarism and patients require replacement treatment for panhypopituitarism.Case Presentation: Our female patient was shorter (138 cm) than her peers and did not menstruate at the age of 19 when she first...