Endocrine Abstracts

Hypothyroidism is a common endocrine disorder which is easily treatable by an appropriate thyroid hormone replacement therapy in the majority of patients. In some patients, hypothyroidism is refractory to oral levothyroxine substitution. Common causes of lack of response to levothyroxine replacement comprise non-compliance and impaired absorption. We report a case of pseudomalabsorption of levothyroxine. Here, we report two female patients with hypothyroidism who had multinod&...

Although the thyroid gland has an abundant blood supply, metastasis to the thyroid gland is a rare condition. Its incidence varies from 0.1% and 3% in clinical series. First case. A 56-year-old man presented to emergency service with neurological symptoms. CT of brain revealed multiple hyperdens lesions. Posteroanterior chest X-ray showed increased opacity in the left lung. Metastatic lung cancer was considered as a preliminary diagnosis and PET/CT was performed. PET/CT showed...

Objective: Nonfunctional adrenal masses are a risk indicator of increased cardiometabolic risk. Especially; increased thrombogenic ambient, insulin resistance, hepatosteatosis and abdominal obesity are determined in these patients with nonfunctional adrenal masses. Our purpose was to show the association of adrenal incidentalome and metabolic syndrome in consideration of the studies and to detect the increase in the carotid intima-media thickness which is regarded as the prece...

Introduction: Primary aldosteronism is presented with signs of hypertension and hypokalaemia classically, however, primary adrenal carcinoma is very rare condition. We aimed to present a patient with a metastatic adrenal carcinoma after the primary diagnosis of hyperaldosteronism.Case report: A 46 years old male patient was referred to our hospital with weakness, dry mouth and weight loss. He had lost weight as 31 pounds during last 3 months. Physical ex...

Introduction: Infections are the major cause of increased mortality and morbidity rate in diabetic foot patients. There are little data in literature about the effects of Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage on DF infection, the risk factors that influence nasal carriage and its incidence in diabetics. We aimed to detect of the incidence, risk factors and relationship between wound culture and S. aureus nasal carriage in diabetic patients who have DF with thi...

Propylthiouracil (PTU), used to treat thyroid dysfunctions such as Graves’ disease, rarely induces lupus-like syndrome. A 52-year-old woman developed dermatological findings of systemic lupus erythematosus with malar rash, photosensitivity and discoid lupus erythematosus-like lesions, after 3 weeks of exposure to the drug. ANA and anti-dsDNA were positive. Skin biopsy of face revealed vacuolar changes in basal layer and lymphoid infiltration in perivascular region of derm...

Introduction: Graves’ disease and Hashimoto’s hypothyroidism are common thyroid diseases. However, occurrence of both clinical disorders one after the other in the same patient, is not common.Case report: In this article, we presented two hypothyroid patients who developed clinical thyrotoxicosis during levothyroxine treatment. Both patients were treated with levothyroxine for a long time. Due to occurrence of clinical hyperthyroidism, levothyr...

Introduction: Acromegaly is a very rare disease with persistent GH secretion due to excessive release of liver IGF1. The risk of malignancy, particularly colon cancer, is increased in acromegalic patients. But no evidence is found in the literature associated increasing of laryngeal carcinoma in acromegalic patients. We aimed to present this case that laryngeal carcinoma should be considered in acromegaly by the clinicians.Case report: A 51-year-old male...

Background: Acromegaly is a relatively rare endocrine disorder which may result in morbidity and mortality. In this study, we report the demographical and clinical characteristics of 62 acromegalic patients who were followed-up at our Department of Endocrinology Clinic.Methods and results: In this retro-prospective study, medical files of the patients who were followed-up from 1984 to 2013 were examined. Data was obtained for age at the time of diagnosis...

Previous studies have shown increased hypoglycemia-associated cardiac arrhythmia and mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.In this study, we aimed to evaluate the response of gastrointestinal hormones and glucoregulatory hormones to the oral glucose tolerance test in patients who were diagnosed with reactive hypoglycemia and to evaluate the risk of arrhythmia with long-holter ECG measurements in patients with a diagnosis o...