Endocrine Abstracts

Aims: The clinical and radiological observation of patients with diabetic osteoarthropathy (DOAP) was carried out with the aim of determining the most significant factors in type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) patients.Methods and materials: Anamnesis, clinical and radiological data were analsed in 28 DOAP patients. The patients were divided into two groups according to the type of diabetes: group 1 included 14 patients with type 1 DM (mean age 37.8...

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a clinical condition which is ideal for evaluating short-term effects of impaired glucose metabolism, ruling out the possibility that the platelet abnormalities are a consequence of diabetic complications.The aim of this study was to measure the velocity of platelet disaggregation and the activation of the platelet second messengers cGMP and cAMP by sodium nitroprusside (SNP) and ATP, respectively, in vitro i...

Objective: To study relationship between osteoprotegerin (OPG) and bone metabolism markers in postmenopausal women with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) compared postmenopausal women without PHPT.Materials and methods: We studied 30 postmenopausal women with PHPT, average age 62.5±6.12. The control group were 16 postmenopausal women without PHPT, mean age 59.7±6.28 in physiological menopause. ...