Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Primary hyperparathyroidism is usually caused by parathyroid adenoma or hyperplasia. Parathyroid carcinoma is a rare cause of hyperparathyroidism with a frequency ranged from 0.3 to 2.1%. Features that increase the likelihood of parathyroid carcinoma in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism are larger tumor size, symptomatic disease, marked hypercalcemia, and very high serum parathyroid hormone (PTH) concentrations. Preoperative localization studies do not re...

Introduction: We diagnosed multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) based upon the occurrence of two primary MEN1 tumor types in patient without family history of MEN1. Hyperparathyroidism was diagnosed in patient five years after gastrinoma surgery. With hormone tests and morphologic investigation we excluded pituitary adenoma.Case report: Forty-nine year old patient was admitted with abdominal pain and vomiting. Laboratory testing revealed elevated v...

An 82-year old female with known osteoporosis was reassessed for bone mineral density (BMD) measurement. Her baseline BMD and lumbar spine T-score (L1-L4) measured in 2004 was 0.699 g/cm2, –3.5 SD, total left hip T-score was 0.618 g/cm2, –2.7 S.D. She was treated with alendronate 70 mg, cholecalciferol 7000 IE per week and calcium supplements for some years. On follow-up in 2013 DXA of lumbar spine and hip, BMD of lumbar spine L1-...

Introduction: An 80-year old female with known osteoporosis was reassessed for BMD measurement. Her baseline BMD and T-score of lumbar spine (L1–L4) measured in 2004 were 0.699 g/cm2, −3.5 S.D., T-score of total left hip was 0.618 g/cm2, −2.7 S.D.. She was treated with alendronate 70 mg, cholecalciferol 7000 IE per week and calcium supplements.Case report: At follow-up...

Introduction: Coronary calcification (quantified as Agatston’s calcium score (CS) and measured with a CT-based method) has been shown to predict coronary atherosclerotic burden and mortality in type 2 diabetics (T2D). Compared to a single measurement, the progression of CS in time better reflects the effects of cardiovascular risk factors that have not yet been fully elucidated.Methods: We measured calcium score (CS) (Agatston’s method, 64-slic...