Endocrine Abstracts

Dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS) is a sulfated ester of dehydroepiandrosterone. Studies of large number of males with DHEAS pathology are infrequent.Objective: To perform an investigation of significance of DHEAS assessment in males of different ages.Subjects. Methods. ResultsWe analyzed clinical data of 3533 patient’s (3013 females and 520 males) from DHEAS assessment lists of Vilnius and Kaunas ...

Introduction: 45,X karyotype is known to be related to more severe phenotype disorders, still comparative analysis of the karyotypes and phenotypes in Turner syndrome (TS) is difficult, even in the largest studies, mainly due to differences in patient‘s age and variability in the definition of clinical features (1). We aimed: to assess if monosomia in Turner syndrome patients is related to their cardiometabolic features.Methods: 75 females with conf...

Introduction: Tumor-induced osteomalacia (TIO) or oncogenic hypophosphatemic osteomalacia (OHO) is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome characterized by renal phosphate wasting leading to hypophosphatemia and secondary osteomalacia. TIO was first described in 1947 by Robert McCance and only 500 of cases have been reported in literature since then, approximately 200 of cases during this decade.Case report: In 2014, a 32-year-old female presented with waist pain...

Introduction: Two major strategies can be used to verify the diagnosis of ascending aortic dilatation in Turner syndrome (TS): the diameter of the aorta adjusted for body surface area (BSA) can be estimated or the ratio of the ascending/descending aorta may be assessed.Aim: To identify the difference of the prevalence of ascending aortic dilatation in patients with Turner syndrome by measuring the diameter of the ascending aorta adjusted for BSA and by e...

Background: Incidental macroprolactinoma is an unsuspected prolactin-secreting pituitary adenoma larger than 1 cm that is discovered by an imaging test performed for an unrelated reason.Case presentation: A 25-year-old man was diagnosed with incidental macroprolactinoma (30.3×23.4×22.6 mm) following a head MRI scan after trauma. At the initial investigation, the patient had no complaints and denied any sexual dysfunction. Physical examination s...