Endocrine Abstracts

Hypertygiceridemia is responsible from the 1–4% of acute pancreatitis cases. When serum triglyceride level rises above 1000–2000 mg/dl, risk of having acute pancreatitis also increases. Medical therapy is usually inadequate for treatment of hypertryglyceridemia cases which cause severe and recurrent pancreatitis attacks. In our case we have reported a patient having recurrent attacks under medical therapy and underwent plasmapheresis.Case: 45 y...

Introduction: Measles virus infections generally occur in childhood, but infections in adolescence and adulthood can lead to complications.Case report: A previously well 28-year-old woman had suffered from nausea, vomiting and generalized fatique for one day before being transferred to our emergency department in a confused state. A diagnosis of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) complicated by ketoacidosis was made based on markedly decreased serum C-peptid...

Introduction: The incidence of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) during pregnancy is quite low. There have been a few anecdotal reports of NHL that arises from the thyroid gland.Case Report: A 28-year-old female patient presented with a neck swelling, pain and respiratory distress while she was in the 17th week of her first pregnancy. Subtotal thyroidectomy was performed and combined histological and immunohistochemical analyses led to the diagnosis of diffuse ...

Objective: Local tumor recurrence is common in adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) and the most frequent cause for re-operation. Therefore, a concept for an adjuvant treatment is urgently needed. The role of radiotherapy in ACC has not been well defined and many authors have considered radiotherapy as ineffective. However, two studies with a small number of patients (n=3 and n=4, resp.) have suggested adjuvant radiation as an effective treatment to prevent recurrence ...

Background: The ESE-ENSAT guidelines emphasize the role of local therapies and suggest radiotherapy (RT) as an individualized treatment in patients with advanced ACC. However, the evidence for this recommendation is very low.Objectives: The aim of this study was to retrospectively investigate the efficacy and tolerance of RT in advanced ACC.Methods: We screened all patients in five European reference centers for ACC since 2000 for ...