Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is an important public health problem due to defects of the effect of the insulin or insulin deficiency, accompanied by chronic microvascular complications with diabetic nephropathy is characterised by proteinuria that the increasing number of patients progress to end stage renal disease. Many peptide hormone made in etiopathogenesis is situated, although adropin which discovered in recent years involves in glucose homeostasis, its relation to d...

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease which causes acute and chronic complications including insulin deficiency and ineffectiveness or both its incidence is increasing every day. Urinary tract infections are more frequently seen and can lead a more aggressive course in diabetic patients when compared with the population in general. The aim of this study is to determine antibacterial susceptibilities of Gram-negative bacteria isolated from diabetic and non-diab...

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 ...