Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: In acromegalic patients, the increased mortality and morbidity are generally due to cardiovascular, metabolic, respiratory and cerebrovascular diseases, so early diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular lesions may save lives. The aim of this study is to find out the any possible difference in terms of carotid intima media thickness (CIMT), indices of arterial stiffness, soluble CD40 ligand (sCD40L) and some echocardiographic parameters between active and inacti...

Introduction: Parathormone (PTH) is one of the major regulator of the bone and mineral metabolism. Elevated PTH levels in patients with primary and secondary hyperparathyroidism is thought to have negative effects on the cardiovascular system. In our study, we aimed to investigate a possible relationship between plasma PTH levels and coronary atherosclerosis.Methods: Fourty-two men and 35 women, a total of 77 patients were included the study who admitted...

Primary hyperparathyroidism is a condition related with cardiovascular mortality and morbidity. Aim of this study is to investigate whether there is a difference between healthy controls, hypercalcemic patients with surgical decision and normocalcemic primary hyperparathyroidism patients for parameters like metabolic cardiovascular risk factors, carotis intima media thickness and pulse wave velocity and if there is a difference at patients with surgical decision 6 months after...