Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Conversion rates of the presentations into publications could be a measure of the scientific Impact of a conference. The aim of the current study was to determine the publication rates of abstracts presented at the 16th European Congress of Endocrinology (ECE 2014) and the factors affecting these rates by using computer algorithms specially coded for this analysis.Methods: All presentations of the ECE 2014 were collected with the web scraping...

Changed lipid and apoprotein composition of serum lipoproteins is commonly found in chronic liver diseases. In this study we evaluated the serum total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), HDL-cholesterol (HDL-c), LDL-cholesterol (LDL-c), apolipoprotein-A (Apo-A), apolipoprotein-B (Apo-B), and Lp(a) levels in age, BMI, and sex matched patients with liver cirrhosis (LC) (n: 50), chronic hepatitis (CH) (n: 31) and compared with control subjects (n: 69). The increasing severity of...

Background: Proton-density fat fraction (PDFF), derived from chemical shift encoding-based water-fat magnetic resonance imaging, has emerged as an important surrogate method for calculation of fat composition in a number of tissues including liver, vertebrae and muscles. This study aims to determine whether fat composition of these tissues, as well as visceral and subcutaneous adiposity differ between women with PCOS and healthy controls.Methods: 17 lean...

Aim: Metabolic syndrome is a major public health challenge associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. The prevalence of metabolic syndrome in Azerbaijan is unknown. The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its relation to physical activity and nutrition in a representative sample of adult population in Azerbaijan.Methods: The study population consisted of 288 adults, 20 years...

Introduction: Pituitary stalk lesions fall into three categories: congenital and developmental (rathke cleft cyst, ectopic neurohypophysis), inflammatory and infectious (hypophysitis, sarcoidosis, tuberculosis), and neoplastic (Langerhans cell histiocytosis, germinoma, metastatic tumors). Herein, we report a case with infundibular lesion presenting with central diabetes insipidus and hypogonadism.Case report: A 27-years old woman was admitted to our clin...

Case: A 28-year old man was admitted to our hospital with complaints of three days of severe headache, diplopia and ptosis of the right eye. He had pituitary macroadenoma and had been on cabergolin 0.25 mg/week for the last six months. At physical examination, he demonstrated ptosis and inability to move the right eye medially. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a 13×12 mm pituitary mass with suprasellar extension and hemorrhage. Visual field analysis was abnormal except t...

Introduction: Radiotherapy to the head and neck area is the standard therapy used for the treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Hypopituitarism is a well-known late complication of cranial radiotherapy. Although very rarely, it may be observed following radiotherapy to the head and neck area, as well.Case report: A 53-year-old man was referred to our endocrinology department for hyponatremia and low free thyroxine (T4) with normal thyroid- st...

Background: Ectopic thyroid tissue (ETT) can be explained as the localisation of thyroid parenchyma outside the orthotopic position of the thyroid gland. It can be more easily found in the tongue, neck, mediastinum, great vessels, heart and anywhere along Wölfler area, but presentation in the adrenal glands is absolutely very rare.Case: A 39-year-old woman was referred to our Endocrinology outpatient clinic with an incidental adrenal mass which was ...

Background and aim: Incidentally discovered adrenal masses (adrenal incidentalomas (AI)), generally 1 cm or more in diameter, are mostly benign and asymptomatic and are often considered as nonfunctional tumors. The aim of this study was to perform the imaging characteristics, endocrinologic screening and histologic diagnoses of adrenal incidentaloma cases encountered in our institute.Methods: This retrospective evaluation of patients with AI includes 543...

Aim: Most diabetic patients suffer from vascular thrombotic complications. Alterations in platelet size are associated with atherosclerotic complications in patients with diabetes. The aim of study is to determine the relationship between mean platelet volume (MPV) and microvascular complications in type 2 diabetic patients.Materials and methods: Seventy-nine type 2 diabetic patients (mean age 51.0±10.8 years and BMI 31.0±5.5 kg/m2),...