Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: There is a risk of hypercalcemia, nephrolithiasis, nephrocalsinosis, and renal failure in the treatment of hypoparathyroidism. We present a case who has an improvement of this complication after changing large doses of vitamin D to physiological doses of 1,25(OH)2D itself.Case report: A 50 years old man was admitted to hospital. He had idiopathic hypoparatyhroidism from the age of 24. He was using oral 1,25(OH)2D 0.25 ...

Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the clinical and laboratory findings of metabolic bone disease regarding the levels of osteoprotegerin (OPG) and the receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa B ligand (RANKL) in the patients with diabetic nephropathy.Material and method: This study includes 61 type 2 diabetic patients and age-, sex-matched 20 healthy subjects. Diabetic patients were divided into three groups accordi...