Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: To evaluate the effects of metformine newly using in clinical practice to ameliorate insulin resistance on paraoxonase activity and oxidative stress in obese insulin resistant women.Materials and methods: Sixty-seven obese (BMI≥30 kg/m2) women were enrolled into this study. Serum fasting (F.Glc) and postprandial glucose (P.Glc), insulin, uric acid (UA), paraoxonase (PON1), Arylesterase (AET), malondialdehyde (MDA), cupper-MDA ...

Introduction: Night eating syndrome (NES) is an eating disorder associated with obesity, characterized by a delayed pattern of food intake in which recurrent episodes of nocturnal eating and/or excessive food consump-tion occur after the evening meal. (1) Studies showed significant weight gain among patients with NES.However, the underlying reason is still controversial.The aim of this study is to investigate the body composition and energy metabolism in patients with NES....

Introduction: ACTH deficiency is a rare disease with non-specific symptoms such as anorexia, fatigue and weight loss. Due to these silent symptoms the disease is easily overlooked and may escape detection for a long time, especially in elderly patient.Case: 67-year-old female patient applied with complaints of fatigue. Bilateral adrenal adenoma was detected during ultrasonographic evaluation and and patient was consulted to endocrinology clinic Her perso...

Pituitary tumors are the most frequent intracranial neoplasm, affecting 11 000 of the world wide population. However metastases in this location are rare and uncommon presentation of systemic malignancy. Although diabetes insipidus secondary to cancer metastasis to the pituitary gland is a common manifestation, anterior pituitary failure is rare. We present a −57-year-old man with hypopituitarism secondary to pituatry metastasis from lung cancer.Ca...

Introduction: Thyroid nodule is a common finding in neck ultrasonography performed in adult age group. Appropriate management of patients with thyroid nodules accuretly is very difficult process. Fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB), is the traditional invasive method used to identify nodules. Investigations are continuing for noninvasive techniques. Elastography is the imaging new technic,to evaluate the nodules. Aim of this study to evaluate the results of FNAB and elastogra...

Background: Hypophysitis is a rare group of disease characterized with infla mmation of the pituitary gland. Rarity of the disease obviates development of a treatment strategy. We aimed to present the nationwide data of the demographics, clinical and radiological characteristics, treatment modalities and responses of the patients diagnosed with hypophysitis in a retrospective manner.Methods: The endocrinology clinics all over the country were invited to ...