Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Bilateral micronodular adrenal cortical disease (miBACD) is a rare and difficult-to-manage disease. miBACD is one of the causes of Cushing’s syndrome. miBACD is divided into primary pigmented nodular adrenocortical disease (PPNAD) and isolated micronodular adrenocortical disease. Its more common presentation is familial PPNAD, as part of Carney syndrome. We also presented a rare case of miBACD.Case presentation: A 20-year-old female pati...

Objectives: Disorders concerning the endocrine system may be seen in patients with transfusion-dependent thalassemia major. It is thought that iron accumulated in the organs, especially with transfusion, causes this. In our study, we tried to reveal a relationship by comparing the iron parameters of these patients with various endocrine parameters.Methods: Our study is a retrospective study.The data of 18 thalassemia major patients who applied to Osmanga...

Introduction: Pituitary apoplexy (PA) is a clinical emergency resulting from acute ischemia or bleeding of the pituitary gland. Complaints of patients are usuallay headache and vision problems. We tried to discuss the reasons for presentation, pituitary imaging and hormones of patients.Patients and Methods: 10 patients (5 men and 5 women), median age 53 years at diagnosis were retrospectively reviewed. FSH, LH, estradiol/testosterone, GH, IGF1, TSH, FT4,...

Acromegaly is a rare disease with high morbidity and mortality associated with excessive secretion of growth hormone due to adenoma of somatotroph cells in the pituitary gland. In patients with acromegaly, residue may remain after surgical treatment, and disease control is attempted with surgery, medical treatment or radiotherapy for these patients. Pituitary imaging, IGF-1 and GH measurement are used in the follow-ups. Dynamic Contrast Enhancement perfusion MRI provides infor...

Background: Paragangliomas (PGLs) and pheochromocytomas (PCCs) arise from chromaffin cells. We evaluated the inflammatory markers. The pan-immune-inflammation value (PIV) has recently been used as a new marker. Therefore, we evaluated the PIV association in patients with PGLs/PCCs.Methods: In the study, the data of 82 patients with PGLs/PCCs who applied between 2005 and 2020 were collected retrospectively from the records. NLR (neutrophil/lymphocyte rati...