Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: LADA exhibits characteristics of both type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) and type 2 DM. Patients with LADA usually have some components of metabolic syndrome. GLP-1 agonists have been widely used in type 2 DM. GLP-1 agonist therapies have shown some promising glucose lowering effect in T1DM. Almost no information is available on glucagon and incretin secretion in patients with LADA as well as effects on glucose and C-peptide levels.Case report: ...

Introduction: Pituitary apoplexy is the rare case of panhypopituitarism. We are presenting a clinical case of pituitary apoplexy in a previously healthy 37-year-old woman.Case report: A 37-year-old woman developed amenorrhea in August 2011. She did not visit a doctor in that time. In December 2011 she suddenly felt severe headache, symptoms of polyuria and polydipsia and temperature of 39 °C. Laboratory results revealed an increased erythrocyte sedi...

Introduction: Resistance to thyroid hormone (RTH) is a rare disorder characterized by reduced tissues’s responsiveness to thyroid hormones (TH). Usually patients with RTH have not clinical signs except goiter. We describe a 70-years old woman with RTH and autoimmune thyroiditis simultaneously.Case report: Woman 70-years old was hospitalized in our department on August 2011 with suspicious of Thyrotropinoma because of high levels of TSH and fT4<...

The aim of the study is to compare efficacy of RAI in patients with Graves disease using different methods calculation of optimum therapeutic activity.Methods: About 60 patients (50 women, 10 men, mean age 44.8±11.8 years) with Graves decease were treated with RAI. The treatment with ATD was cancel 10 days before RAI to restore the iodine intake by thyroid gland. Therapeutic activity was determent individually 1) with applied the special formula in ...

Background: Pregnancy occurs rarely in Cushing’s syndrome (CS), slightly over 150 cases have been reported in the literature. The risk of maternal morbidity and a poor fetal outcome is significant when CS coexists with pregnancy. CS may be difficult to detect clinically and laboratory because of the hormonal changes and pathological comorbidities associated with normal pregnancy.Material and methods: A case of CS that was diagnosed and treated durin...