Endocrine Abstracts

The morning serum cortisol measurement has long been used as an index of adrenal function in the unstressed patient, but does not necessarily differentiate normal subjects from those with adrenal dysfunction. We investigate causes and clinical findings of adrenocortical insufficiency in this study, and will propose a model predicting results of rapid ACTH stimulation test. A consecutive series of 363 subjects who were examined rapid ACTH stimulation were recruited. Adrenocorti...

Introduction: A diagnosis of subacute thyroiditis (SAT) is readily suspected when patients present with a particular set of typical clinical and laboratory characteristics. We present a patient with atypical SAT who had no neck pain but presented with fever, and weight loss; had thyrotoxicosis with normal 99mTc uptake, and needed higher doses of steroids to resolve.Case report: A 57-year-old man presented with a fever (39  °C) of 2 month-durati...

Introduction: Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy of thyroid nodules is minimally invasive and safe. The clinical importance of the thyroid nodule evaluation is primarily related to the need to exclude thyroid cancer. We aimed to investigate the relationship between preoperative FNA cytology and results of thyroidectomy in this study.Materials and Methods: Histopathologic examination reports of 302 patients undergoing thyroidectomy and preoperative FNA c...

Objective: Graves’ disease (GD) occurs as a result of genetic and environmental factors that trigger autoimmunity. Some pro-inflammatory cytokines have already been linked to an increased susceptibility of developing GD. Recently, it has been reported that Covid-19 infection and SARS-CoV-2 vaccination trigger the emergence of new GD cases or disease recurrence as environmental factors due to the pandemic. However, there is no data in the literature reporting the effects o...

Purpose: We conducted this study to determine the prevalence and incidence of pituitary tumors in South Korea.Methods: This is a nationwide population- based retrospective study. We analysed two national databases, the Korean National Health Insurance (NHI) claims database and Rare Intractable Disease (RID) registration database, which include information on every patients with pituitary tumor diagnosed through uniform criteria from 2009 to 2013. Pituita...

Objective: Despite treatment, the quality of life in patients with acromegaly remains lower than in the healthy population due to the classical findings and complications related to the disease. Therefore, in the follow-up of acromegaly, evaluation of quality of life along with symptoms and biochemical parameters is recommended. The aim of our study was to evaluate the quality of life, anxiety and depression status of our acromegaly patients and to assess the factors affecting...