Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Conversion rates of the presentations into publications could be a measure of the scientific Impact of a conference. The aim of the current study was to determine the publication rates of abstracts presented at the 16th European Congress of Endocrinology (ECE 2014) and the factors affecting these rates by using computer algorithms specially coded for this analysis.Methods: All presentations of the ECE 2014 were collected with the web scraping...

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PurposeWe aimed to determine the effectiveness of bilateral inferior petrosal sinus sampling (IPSS) in the differential diagnosis of adrenocorticotropic hormone-dependent Cushing Syndrome (ACTH-dependent CS).Method51 patients diagnosed with ACTH-dependent CS between 2010-2019 in the Endocrinology Clinic in Şişli Hamidiye Etfal Health Training and Research Hospital were included in the study. The dia...

Diabetes caused by immune checkpoint inhibitors is extremely rare. A 48-year-old male patient with a diagnosis of squamous cell cancer in the external auditory canal and operated on received adjuvant radiotherapy. When relapse was seen, 6 cycles of 5-fluorouracil, carboplatin, and cetuximab were administered. The patient was admitted to the hospital with nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain 10 days after the second cycle infusion, when pembrolizumab was started when the crania...

Background: Treatment of vitamin D deficiency orinappropriate vitamin D supplementation may cause side effects associated with hypercalcemia. We observed a tendency to use very high single dose cholecalciferol for treatment of vitamin D deficiency.Aim: The primary aim of this study was to examine the clinical characteristics of patientswith very high serum 25OHD levels of vitamin D toxicity in Turkey.Materials and methods: An invit...