Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Hyperprolactinemia has been associated with dyslipidaemia, hypercoagulability, impaired endothelial function and decreased insulin sensitivity. Recent data show that prolactin hormone (PRL) could contribute to atherogenesis. The aim of our study was to investigate the relationship between MPV and PRL, androgen hormones, lipid profiles in premenopausal prolactinoma patients, who did not have insulin resistance (IR).Methods: Thirty-nine newly...

Introduction: Although numerous noninvasive markers are being used in order to determine preoperative thyroid cancer risk in patients with multi-nodular goiter, none of them are optimal. The objective of this study was to compare retrospectively the TSH level between two groups of subjects who underwent total thyroidectomy for a nodule and whose final histology was benign or malignant.Methods: Our study included 208 patients that underwent thyroidectomy ...

Background: The main objective of this study is to establish the rate of malignancy in residual thyroid tissue in patients with DTC, and whether the serum thyroglobulin (Tg) level before complementary thyroidectomy and histopathologic characteristics of the tumor would be able to foresee malignancy in residual tissue.Methods: Our study included 58 patients with DTC that underwent complementary thyroidectomy that results were analyzed retrospectively. Pat...

Aim: In this study, our aim is to evaluate the ultrasonographic features and histopathologic results of the thyroid nodules which are defined as AUS and contribute to the therapeutic approach of these nodules.Methods: We evaluated 95 nodules of 92 patients, who have nodular or multinodular goiter and had diagnosed AUS at least in one nodule with fine-needle aspiration (FNA). Patients’ thyroid function tests, ultrasonographic features of the nodules ...

Introduction: Helicobacter pylori (HP) infection is the most significant cause of gastritis and related morbidities. Radioactive iodine treatment (RAIT) is an important option in the treatment of hyperthyroidism. In addition to thyroid gland, RAI accumulates in stomach in significant amounts. In our study, we planned to investigate whether RAIT has an effect on carbon-14-urea breath test (UBT) in patients with hyperthyroidism.Materials-method: The...

Introduction: It is commonly known that hearing and balance functions are affected in thyroid function disorders. In literature, there are very few studies demonstrating that hearing may be affected due to autoimmunity in euthyroid Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) independent from thyroid functions. In addition, hearing disorders have also been reported in other autoimmune diseases. For this reason, we investigated the functions of the peripheral and central sections of audit...

Objective: In our clinic we aimed to assess ultrasonographic and histopathologic data of thyroid nodules of patients with nodular thyroid disease reported their repeated cytologic results as non-diagnostic.Methods: Seventy-five patients with nodular thyroid disease whom their TFNAB results were reported 2–3 times non-diagnostically (due to large nodule, ultrasonographically suspicious nodule, high elastosonographic score or strain index, family hist...