Endocrine Abstracts

March 2011. Patient P. Caucasian female, 53 years. Diagnosis: severe Grave’s disease (GD), recurrent course. Endocrine ophthalmopathy (EO) NOSPECS – 4, CAS – 7. Thyrotoxic cardiomyopathy. Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. Thyrotoxic proximal myopathy of the lower limbs. Thyrotoxic hepatitis. Type 2 diabetes mellitus. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.Anamnesis: GD was first diagnosed in 2001, when she started to complain of weight lost (...

Patient C Caucasian male, 41 years old was admitted to the inpatient department of endocrinology with newly diagnosed T2 DM, morbid obesity on the 03.03.2011.Anamnesis: Overweight since childhood, but in the past few years he started to gain weight rapidly (because of smoking cessation). Arterial hypertension since 2003, with maximum increase up to 210/125 and he took antihypertensive drugs regularly. In 2006 painless myocardial ischemia was f...