Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Childhood obesity has become an important health problem nowadays. Intracranial lesions (IC) can affect the hypothalamic - hypophyseal axis depending on the localization of the lesion and lead to hypophyseal hormone deficiencies, especially growth hormone. Although IC lesions are important in the etiology of obesity, There’s limited data in the literature about this subject. Aim of this study is to evaluate the incidence of IC lesions and their role in clini...

Background and aim: Lymphocytic hypophysitis is heterogeneous inflammatory processes of the pituitary gland and may cause isolated hormone deficiency, but rarely occurs as panhypopituitarism. We aim to present a rare case of ulcerative colitis coexisting with lymphocytic hypophysitis.Case report: A 42-years old woman with ulcerative colitis was applied for our department of internal medicine with hypoglycemia. Her capillary blood glucose levels were foun...