Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Appropriate replacement therapy of not only gonadotrophins, but other deficient pituitary hormones is important in patients with hypopituitarism for a successful pregnancy. Data regarding GH replacement therapy during pregnancy is limited. We would like to present a case with panhypopituitarism including severe GH deficiency due to Sheehan’s syndrome, who achieved successful pregnancy with GH replacement therapy in the first half of pregnancy.<p class="a...

Introduction: The pathogenesis of idiopathic hirsutism (IH) is not clear. On the other hand, human skin possesses all the enzymes necessary for androgen synthesis and catabolism indicating that it is an independent peripheral endocrine organ. Thus, in the present study we aimed to investigate the mRNA expression of aromatase enzyme and the other enzymes having functional roles in the steroidogenic pathway, in freshly obtained skin tissue from subumblical skin and the arm of wo...