Endocrine Abstracts

Anaemia prevalence is reported between 5 and 31.8% in patients with PHPT. Anaemia in PHPT shows correlations with serum calcium, PTH, alkaline phosphatase levels, severity of the bone disease and PHPT duration. In this study we compared pre-operative and post-operative haemogram parameters of patients with PHPT who received a parathyroidectomy at our department. We determined the prevelance of pre-operative anaemia, thrombocytopenia, neutropenia and observed if any of this par...

Introduction: Two tumors originating from different cells in the thyroid to metastasis same lymph nodes is very rare. We aimed to present that the same lymph node metastasis of medullary and papillary thyroid in a case.Case: A 4-year-old male presented with backache without a formerly known disease, has no other property in the patient’s history. Vertebra BT was taken and T2, T4, T6 vertebral metastasis have been det...

Introduction: The incidence of diabetic foot in diabetics is 5-10%. We herein aimed to share a formerly undiagnosed diabetic patient presenting with crural infection.Case: A 48-year-old male patient, without a formerly known disease, presented to a local medical center due to spontaneously progressing ulceration on left leg. The ulcers did not improve with antibiotics in seven days and afterwards he was referred to our hospital. At admission, his plasma ...

Introduction: Continuous s.c. insulin infusion (CSII) therapy is a well documented treatment modality in type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM), but its usage in type 2 DM has not become prevalent so far. It may be a treatment alternative in severely insulin resistant type 2 diabetics recieving high doses of insulin. We present a type 2 diabetic patient that we had to shift from multiple dosage insulin (MDI) injection to CSII therapy due to the widespread echimosis at the insulin injec...