Endocrine Abstracts

Acromegaly is usually regarded as a disease which occurs sporadically. Familial occurence of acromegaly due to pituitary adenoma without any other endocrinopathy in a family is extremely rare. These patients should be evaluated for multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN 1) and Carney complex. We report here two cases of acromegaly due to pituitary macroadenomas. Subject 1 is a 50-year-old woman and subject 2 is her 23-year-old son with elevated growth hormone (GH) levels dur...

Aim: Radioactive treatment after surgery forms the basis of treatment of differentiated thyroid cancers (DTC) and also used as permanent theraphy of hyperthyroidism. Iodide is being transported into the thyrocytes by the NIS system that located on the thyrocytes’ cell membran. NIS system also has been shown at the gastric mucosa. In this study we proposed to analyse the effect of low and high dose radio-iodine treatment on Helicobacter pylori eradication.<p cla...