Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Glycogenic hepatopathy (GH) has been reported as a very rare and under recognized complication in longstanding poorly controlled type 1 diabetes patients. GH is characterised by transient elevation of liver transaminase and hepatomegaly caused by reversible and excessive glycogen accumulation in hepatocytes. Here we report a 20 years old type 1 poorly controlled diabetic female patient with elevated transaminases.Clinical presentation: A 20...

A 73-year-old woman, admitted to emergency room due to generalized tonic–clonic seizures. She had a previous history of muscle cramps and paresthesia for 4 months. She had a medical history of peptic ulcer and she was taking omeprazole for 7 years. Her laboratory evaluation showed marked hypomagnesemia (<0.4 mg/dl normal ranges: 1.7–2.55 mg/dl) and hypocalcemia (6.83 mg/dl and normal ranges: 8.8–10.2 mg/dl) with extremely low urinary Ca and Mg excretion (&#6...

Objective: Diabetes is an independent risk factor for sudden cardiac death. Prolongation of the QT interval on the ECG increases the risk of arrhytmias and sudden death, and the increased prevalance of QT prolongation is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular death in diabetic patients. Low vitamin D levels are also associated with cardiovascular mortality. The aim of this study was to investigte the relationship between QT interval and vitamin D levels in type 2 diabet...

Objective: The risk of atherosclerotic heart disease is increased in hypothyroidism. Although the reason is not clear. It is known that high level of Lp(a) is increases the risk of atherosclerotic heart diseases. The aim of this study is to investigate the relation between Lp(a) levels and thyroid hormones in the Hashimato’s patients.Methods: One hundred and fifty Hashimato’s patient (50 patients diagnosed with clinic hypothryoid, 50 patients d...

Purpose: To determine the prevalence of nodular thyroid disease, autoimmune thyroid disease, goiter and primary thyroid dysfunction in patients with active Cushing’s disease.Patients and methods: Nineteen patients with active Cushing’s disease (17 female, 2 male, mean age 43.16±3.55 years) and forty, age and gender matched healthy volunteers who served as the control group (34 female, 6 male, mean age 47.28±2.31 years) were included i...