Endocrine Abstracts

Diabetic patients have higher risk of urinary tract infection (UTI). Increasing of infections in patients with diabetes mellitus is conditioned by an immunosuppressive condition resulting from immune damage.Objective: To give some dates about urinary infection in patients with diabetes mellitus, that are presented for consultation at the service of Endocrinology in the American Hospital, Tirana, AlbaniaMaterial: This study was cond...

Drug-induced hypoglycemia is a major clinical concern. Antibiotics are one of the causative agents to cause hypoglycemia. Tigecycline, which is a glycylcycline antibiotic, has a broad spectrum of activity, including activity against drug-resistant gram-positive and negative organisms. It´s side effects are significant but hypoglycemia and severe hypoglycemia is a rare finding during treatments. Our aim is to present an event of severe hypoglycemia in a patient with type 2...

Introduction: Polyglandular autoimmune syndrome type II (PGA-II) or Schmidt’s syndrome is a very rare autoimmune disorder and difficult to diagnose because the symptoms of this syndrome depends on the gland which gets involved first. Approximately 14–20 people per million population are affected by polyglandular autoimmune syndrome type II. It is characterised by the obligatory occurrence of autoimmune Addison’s disease in combination with thyroid autoimmune dis...

Introduction: Thyroid nodule size is routinely assessed and has been a cause for concern, if it is a carcinoma or not.Aim: Our aim was to evaluate the relationship between thyroid nodule size and cancer risk. It was a retrospective analysis of 386 patients with thyroid nodules who referred to surgery in our hospital from January 2011 to March 2016. Patient’s demographic data, nodules size, and final pathology were recorded. All data were analyses us...

Introduction: Diabetic muscle infarction is a very uncommon complication of diabetes and predominately occurs in type 1 diabetes (70% of cases) or long standing poorly controlled type 2 diabetic patients, often misdiagnosed as cellulitis. It is defined as spontaneous ischemic necrosis of skeletal muscle that is unrelated to atheroembolism or occlusion of major arteries.Case presentation: We report a case of 54-years-old women non-smoker with an 8 years h...

Differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) in general has a good prognosis when ist diagnosed early. Late stage disease with bone metastasis may cause severe complications, increases mortality rate, decreases the quality of life, and shortens the patients’ survival. The treatment is still controversial. Surgery or radioiodine therapy alone is usually unsatisfactory.Case presentation: We report a case of a 40-year-old female presented, in August 2012, with ...

Aim of the study: Thyroid cancer comprises the most common endocrine malignancy and a variety of studies have examined the incidence of carcinomas in n thyroid disorders. Objective of the present retrospective study was the assessment of the possible influence of age and gender parameters in the presence of thyroid carcinoma in a patient who underwent total thyroidectomy.Material and methods: We studied 107 patients (96 females/11 males) underwent total ...

Background: Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is characterised by a high concentration of serum calcitonin. Routine measurement of serum calcitonin concentration has been advocated for detection of MTC among patients with nodular thyroid diseases. The aims of our study were to identify medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) in its earliest stages by screening patients with basal calcitonin measurements and to determine whether basal serum calcitonin measurements should be a part of ou...

Introduction: Metformin is the first line treatment of type 2 diabetes, but now has been reported to cause a decrease in level of Vitamin B12.The aim of the study is to describe the prevalence of vitamin B12 deficiency in adults with type 2 Diabetes Mellitus who were in treatment with metformin compared in those without diabetes.Material and Methods: Total number of patients were 130 between 16–84 years old. Mean age 54.2 &#1...

Introduction: Although co-association between thyroid disease and parathyroid disease is rare, co-existence between parathyroid adenomas (HPPs) and papillary thyroid carcinomas (PTC) is rare. Perhaps this can be explained by the different embryological origins of the thyroids cells with the parathyroid cells.Objectives: To report a case with parathyroid adenoma and multifocal papillary thyroid carcinoma.Case presentation: A 62-year...