Endocrine Abstracts

Purpose: Pituitary apoplexy is a rare endocrine emergency due to abrupt hemorrhage or infarction of a preexisting pituitary tumor. We aimed to present clinical and biochemical characteristics as well as the management of patients presented with pituitary apoplexy at our department.Methods: Review of the records of all patients presenting with pituitary apoplexy at the Endocrinology department over the last 20 years.Results: During ...

Introduction: Graves’ disease (GD) is a common autoimmune endocrinopathy where autoantibodies that activate TSH receptor (TRAb) cause clinical hyperthyroidism. Graves’ Orbitopathy (GO) is one of the major complications of GD that results from the inflammation of retro-orbital tissues. Although the clinical usefulness of TRAb determination in the diagnosis of GD is well established, recent studies have shown that TRAb levels may also be helpful in assessing the activi...

Vitamin D is synthesized in the skin. Low vitamin D levels have been observed in African Americans. However, the relationship between vitamin D and skin color has not been completely evaluated.The aim was to study the relationship between dark skin color and vitamin D levels in healthy individuals.Vitamin D (25(OH)D3) levels were measured in 15 dark skinned individuals. All subjects were immigrants, having migrated to Gr...

Adrenal rests, nodules of the adrenal, in patients with chronic elevation of ACTH levels have been previously described.The aim was to describe the case of a patient with an adrenal tumor and late onset 21-hydroxylase deficiency.A female patient, aged 76 years, presented with an incidentally discovered mass of the left adrenal measuring 1.2 cm. The patient was short with a height of 152 cm. Morning serum ACTH levels were 31 pg/ml, ...

Background and aims: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and the metabolic syndrome (MS) have many features in common and may share the same pathogenesis. We examined the prevalence of the MS according to the ATP III criteria and the effect of family history for DM 2 on metabolic profile in young women with PCOS.Subjects and methods: We studied 75 women with PCOS aged (23.9±5.4) and 75 healthy age-matched women. We measured BMI, WHR and blood pressure ...