Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Vitamin D insufficiency is common in older people and is associated with several disorders related to aging such as osteoporosis, which leads to a significantly increased risk of bone fractures. This deficiency is more common in Mediterranean countries than in Northern European countries. Hypocalcemic seizures resulting from vitamin D deficiency are rare in adults, and fractures caused by seizures without evidence of direct trauma have not yet been reported.<...

Pituitary apoplexy (PA) is a rare but life-threatening medical emergency. Common predisposing factors include closed head trauma, blood pressure alterations, history of pituitary irradiation, cardiac surgery, anticoagulation, treatment with dopamine agonists, pituitary stimulation testing, and pregnancy. Hantaviruses belonging to the Bunyaviridae family are a group of rodent- or insectivore-borne single-strand ribonucleic acid (RNA) viruses. In humans, hantaviruses can cause h...

Osteopoikilosis (OPK) is a rare benign sclerotic bone dysplasia. It is inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern. There is no exact evidence of its aetiology and pathogenesis. Usually, it is an asymptomatic disease and the diagnosis is made incidentally from radiographs which show multiple, small, well-defined, variably shaped and widely distributed sclerotic areas over the skeleton. We report a family with OPK. A 22 years old woman was admitted to outpatient clinic with comp...