Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) is a simple, the most cost-effective, less invasive and a commonly used diagnostic tool for evaluating thyroid nodules. Recent times a tech-nique called fine-needle sampling non-aspiration (FNNA) or fine-needle capillary thyroid biopsies (FNC) has been more preferred. This technique prevents the use of suction so there is no aspiration crush and there-fore nondiagnostic outcomes are reduced. The aim of this prospective study was to co...

Background: Although high levels of calcitonin suggest neoplastic proliferations such as medullary thyroid carcinoma, C cell hyperplasia and some neuroendocrine tumors, systemic diseases and drugs may also elevate calcitonin. Although calcitonin is not as effective as PTH, it has got a role in calcium hemoastasis. Supraphysiological calcitonin level can lead to hypocalcemia.Case presentation: A 57-year-old male patient was diagnosed with epilepsy with co...

Introduction: Dexamethasone Suppression Test (DST) is a useful approach in diagnosis and differential diagnosis of Cushing Syndrome (CS) despite its limitations. One of the major limitations is the difficulty to provide standard suppression dose depending on the variability of gastrointestinal absorption. One solution is for this testing serum Dexamethasone levels or test it with intravenous (iv) Dexamethasone In this case, we examined 3 patients to whom we applied intravenous...

Background: Graves’ disease is an autoimmune disease that is characterized by production of excess thyroid hormones by thyroid gland, which is called hyperthyroidism. Generally, clinical presentations of Graves’ disease range from asymptomatic disease to overt symptomatic hyperthyroidism with heat intolerance, tremor, palpitation, weight loss, and increased appetite. Single-cell lineage haematological abnormalities, such as anemia, leukopenia, and thrombocytopenia,...

Introduction: Coexistence of type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) and autoimmune thyroid diseases was shown in previous studies. Thyroid dysfunctions and thyroid autoantibody positiveness were reported in 23–25 and 27–44% of patients with type 1 DM, respectively. In recent years, thyroid ultrasonography (US) is widely used to diagnose autoimmune thyroid diseases with regard to its ability to define thyroid morphology and echogenity. In this study, we aimed to evaluate thyro...

Introduction: Survival is increased in childhood-onset type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) and approximately half of patients are diagnosed after the age of 15. Thus, a considerable number of patients with type 1 DM are adults. In this study, we aimed to investigate glycemic control and modalities of treatments in adult type 1 DM patients.Material and methods: Data of type 1 DM patients hospitalized between January 2004 and December 2009 were evaluated retrosp...

Objective: Fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) is a reliable and safe method to distinguish benign and malignant thyroid nodules. FNAB has two major limitations: nondiagnostic and suspicious cytology results. There is uncertainty about clinical approach to the nondiagnostic FNAB in thyroid nodules. Our aim was to evaluate the ratio and reasons of nondiagnostic results, and the ratio of malignancy in these nodules.Method: About 2082 patients and 3404 nod...

Objective: Mean platelet volume (MPV), is an indicator of platelet sizes, and an indirect marker of platelet function and activity. In this study, we aimed to evaluate MPV in patients with acromegaly, and to investigate the effects of octreotide long acting repeatable (LAR) on MPV after 6-month therapy.Methods: Data of 25 patients with acromegaly (16 women; 9 men; mean age, 43.8±13.5 years) included in the study were searched retrospectively. The da...

Introduction: Bisphosphonates are the most commonly used drugs for the treatment of osteoporosis and have been shown to improve bone mineral density and reduce fractures. However, approximately a decade ago, atypical femoral shaft fractures were found to be a rare complication of bisphosphonate treatment. Atypical Femoral Fractures (AFF) represent fractures located between the lesser trochanter and the supracondylar flare of a femur. An increasing pool of evidence supports the...

Aim: In this study, we aimed to evaluate the vitamin D and calcium treatments adherence in patients with hypoparathyroidism after surgery.Materials and methods: To elucidate the medication adherence, we performed a questionnaire survey using the six item Morisky Medication Adherence Scale for medication of patients with postoperative hypoparathyroidism. These 6 questions were as follows; 1) Do you sometimes have problems remembering to take your medicati...