Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Hypokalemia is a chronic condition in primary aldosteronism (PA) and hypokalemia symptoms usually can be tolerated by the patients. Hypokalemic periodic paralysis due to primary aldosteronism is rarely reported. We reported two cases of hypokalemic paralysis due to primary aldosteronism.Case 1: A 33-year-old male admitted to the emergency service with fatigue, numbness, progressive weakness in his legs and arms for 2 months. He had a hyperten...

Background: Postoperative severe polyuria is a rare condition after adrenal pheochromocytoma resection. We presented this case due to its rarity.Case: A 50-year-old women admitted to emergency service with malaise and fatigue complaint. The patient was using triple antihypertensive combination that started 10 years ago. Her medical history included cerebrovascular event due to hypertension 5 years ago. In physical examination her BMI was 20 kg/m2</s...

Introduction: Prolactinomas are frequent in women and between 20 and 40 years but rarely seen in men especially as macroadenoma. Both in microadenomas and macroadenomes unless there is not any indication for an emergent surgery, first line treatment is always medical with dopamine agonists. In this report, we presented a patient with macroprolactinoma that disappears in a short time with dopamine agonist treatment.Case: A 20-year-old boy admitted to endo...

Introduction: Most common two causes of primary hyperaldosateronism are bilateral idiopathic hyperplasia and aldosteron secreting adenoma but unilateral adrenal hyperplasia is a rare cause. We presented a primary hyperaldosteronism case that caused by unilateral adrenal hyperplasia.Case: A 56-year-old male admitted to endocrinology policlinic with complaints of polydipsia, polyuria, fatigue and muscle wasting. He had hypertension for 4 years. In physical...

Introduction: Autoimmune adrenal injury is the most common cause of primary adrenal failure (PAF) (70–90%). Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) that characterized by thrombosis and abortus may be a reason of PAF. In this presentation we reported a case of primary adrenal failure due to primary antiphospholipid syndrome.Case: A 34-year-old boy was brought to emergency service due to loss of consciousness. In physical examination patients was confused, bl...

Introduction: Oncocytic (Hurthle cell) carcinoma is consisted of <5% of thyroid cancer but most metastasizing cancer type among differentiated thyroid cancer. We presented an oncocytic carcinoma with sternum metastasis.Case: A 68-year-old women admitted to endocrinology policlinic with complaint of a mass in her neck. She was diagnosed hyperthyroidism and she was using thionamid for 6 months. Her medical history revealed hypertension for 3 years and ...

Aim: Thyroid tissue originates from foramen cecum located in the base of the tongue and with embryonal development it descends through thyroglossal duct to its normal location. A total or partial failure in thyroid tissue descending causes ectopic thyroid tissue. One of this ectopic region is lingual region. We presented two case of ectopic thyroid tissue.Case 1: A 18-year-old female that uses levothyroxine 100 mcg/day for hypothyroidism admitted to endo...

Aim: Diabetes mellitus affects many systems and one of them is skin. Skin findings among diabetic patients reported 30–71%. Skin findings may be due to direct metabolic effects of diabetes but complications and drugs may be cause as well. In this study our aim was to investigate the skin findings and prevalence among diabetic patients that admitted to endocrinology policlinic.Method: 81 patients involved to study, skin examination of the patients we...

Background: X and Y chromosomes carry many genes that direct development and gametogenesis. Rearrangements associated with X chromosome may have a role in abnormal phenotypes. We presented a case of primary amenorrhea with normal karyotype but centromere thickness in 13th chromosome (13 cenh+), this is the first case in literature.Case: A 18-year-old woman admitted to endocrinology clinic with complaints of primary amenorrhea and a failure in ...

Aim: Our aim was to investigate the frequency of isolated maternal hypothyroxinemia (IMH) at gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM)Material and method: Fifty women with GDM aged between 20–41 and 100 healthy pregnant aged between 17–41 were involved to study. Patients that have thyroid disease and low free T4 levels at first trimester were ruled out. Thyroid function tests of patients and healthy controls were assessed at first, second ...