Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Werner syndrome (WS) is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by premature aging, skin changes, gray hair, alopecia, muscle atrophy, osteoporosis, and cataracts and has a high frequency of association with rare neoplasms. In addition, some endocrinological abnormalities were manifested in this rare disease, such as hypogonadism, diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia. Atrophic changes of organs and systems such as skin, brain and genital organs were reported. H...

‘Nondippers’ are individuals with absence of anticipated nocturnal decrease in blood pressure (BP) and increased incidence of target organ damage. The pathogenesis of nondipper hypertension is not clear at present. We aimed to investigate the effect of overt and subclinical hypothyroidism on the development of nondipper blood pressure pattern via 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. One hundred and nine normotensive patients with overt and subclinical hypoth...

Endocan has been suggested as a marker for endothelial dysfunction. Some evidence exists that Graves’ disease may be associated with impaired endothelial function. The aim of the study was to evaluate serum endocan, endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and carotid intima media thickness (CIMT) in patients with Graves’ disease. Thirty one newly diagnosed patients with Graves’ disease and 31 healthy volunteers with similar age and sex were examined. Serum endocan, VEG...

Idiopathic granulomatous hypophysitis is a very rare inflammatory disease of the pituitary gland. Primary hypophysitis represents a difficult diagnostic challenge because it can imitate pituitary adenomas clinically and radiologically. The diagnosis is usually made histologically by hypophysectomy. We herein present a rare case of idiopathic granulomatous hypopysitis diagnosed primarily by pituitary biopsy.Case: A 50-year-old female patient presented wit...

Cardiovascular deleterious effects of short term hypothyroidism are not well known. We aimed to investigate proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9), soluble lectin-like oxidized LDL receptor 1 (sLOX-1) and ankle brachial index (ABI) in patients with thyroid cancer with short term overt hypothyroidism due to thyroid hormone withdrawal (THW). Twenty-one patients who require radioactive iodine (RAI) ablation or RAI scan and thirty-six age, sex, BMI similar euthyroid...

Also cytopenies can be established in the evaluation of Graves’ disease (GD), isolated thrombocytopenia is very rare. Here, we present a case of immune thrombocytopenia incidentally found in the evaluation of GD. A 48-year-old female was admitted to our hospital with palpitation and anxiousness. The thyroid function tests were concordant with thyrotoxicosis. She had two subcentimetre nodules in the right thyroid lobe. Thyroid gland had increased iodine uptake. And thyroid...

Introduction: Mutations on menin gene are associated with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1.Case report: Thirty-five year-old male patient was admitted to our hospital with history of recurrent syncope episodes for 5 years which were attributed to hypoglycemia. In physical examination, he had obesity and multiple papillamatous skin lesions on his abdominal region. He had no family history of similar symptoms. His laboratory eveluation was consistent wi...

Introduction: Infliximab is a tumour necrosis factor (TNF) α inhibitor and used for the treatment of psoriasis. Herein, we report a case of destructive thyroiditis accompanied by transient thyrotoxicosis resulting from the infliximab therapy for the treatment of psoriasis.Case report: A 57-year-old man suffered from psoriasis and was treated with infliximab therapy for 4 years. Thyroid function tests were normal before infliximab therapy. When the p...

Thyroid lymphomas are very rare diseases of the thyroid.We present three patients with thyroid lymphoma administered our department last year. Two of the patients presented with rapidly enlarging neck mass with pressure symptoms, and the other was diagnosed during the evaluation of a thyroid nodule. Two patients had the Hashimoto’s thyroiditis diagnosis. All the patients underwent surgery, since no exact diagnosis could be established with fine feed...

Introduction: Hypoglycemia is a complication of diabetes mellitus (DM) with high morbidity and mortality. Risk of hypoglycemia is affected by the type and duration of DM, use of insulin or oral antidiabetic agents, dietary habits and comorbidities. In this study, we aimed to understand frequency and causes of hypoglycemia in patients with type 2 DM in Turkish population and especially collect data about hypoglycemia in geriatric population.Methods: Betwe...