Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Hyperprolactinemia is a rare endocrine disorder in childhood, which may be due to various etiological factors and may present with different signs and symptoms. We aimed to evaluate the etiologic reasons, clinical features and outcome in hyperprolactinemia patients retrospectively.Method: Data from 25 patients who were followed up with hyperprolactinemia between years 2009 and 2017 were evaluated.Results: A total of 25 p...

Aim: To determine whether multiple fine needle passes to the same thyroid nodule in the fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNA) session affect sufficient and/or atypia of undetermined significance/follicular lesion of undetermined significance (AUS/FLUS) cytological result.Materials and Methods: Ultrasonography (US) and cyto-histopathology results of the nodules of patients who were diagnosed with thyroid nodules and underwent FNA between May-August 2021 wer...

Backgorund: Adrenal incidentalomas (AI) are lesions discovered incidentally on imaging without clinical symptoms or examination findings. AI can produce hormones in 5-30% of cases. Autonomic cortisol secretion (ACS) is the most common of these. Although ACS is asymptomatic, it increases the risk of metabolic disorders.Methods: Patients aged ≥18 years with adrenal adenoma and upper abdominal MRI who presented and were examined in the endocrinology o...

Aim: Hypothyroidism is a common chronical disease worldwide, leading to a lifelong metabolic slowdown that can have a significant negative impact on the quality of life, both physiologically and psychologically. Despite achieving euthyroidism with replacement, there is evidence that symptoms persist. In this study, we aim to examine the effectiveness of thyroid hormone replacement and the effect of autoimmunity from a clinical-biochemical point of view by evaluating the euthyr...

Aim: The association between thyroid autoimmunity and thyroid cancer has long been suggested, in addition whether and how the concurrent thyroid autoimmunity with Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma (PTC) affects clinicopathological features and prognosis is a matter of debate. In the present study, we aimed to evaluate the laboratory data, cancer characteristics and prognosis of PTC patients with and without thyroid autoimmunity.Materials and Methods: Data of 2...

Aim: Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is an autosomal dominant genetic disease characterized by increased levels of low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-chol). Despite relatively high prevalance and significant association with increased mortality, the awareness of physicians and patients is low and it is an underdiagnosed and undertreated disease. We aimed to detect patients with FH and determine treatment status and compliance.Materials and metho...

Idiopathic granulomatoushypophysitis is a rare inflammatory disease which is characterized by inflammation and cellular infiltration of the pituitary gland. The infiltration may cause pituitary insufficiency, compression symptoms due to mass effect and diabetes insipidus. We report the case of a 33-year-old female patient who presenting with weakness, fatigue, amenorrhea and worsening of headaches about 3 months. The patient did not have blurring vision and polyuria-polydipsia...

Introduction: 80–90% of insulinomas are smaller than 2 cm, equally located in the head, body and tail of pancreas. Computer tomography (CT) is 75%, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is 55–90%, endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) is 85–95% and selective arterial calcium stimulation test (SACST) is 95–100% sensitive in the diagnosis of insulinomas. Here, we presented two cases of insulinoma which could not be located by conventional methods and evaluated with SAC...

Aim: Although nonsecretory parathyroid carcinoma is relatively more frequent, nonsecretory parathyroid adenoma was also reported. It is thought to precede functioning parathyroid adenoma.Case report: An iso-hypoechoic 6.5×9.5×16.1 mm thyroid nodule with irregular borders in the superior-posterior part of right thyroid lobe was observed in ultrasonography in a 44-year-old female euthyroid patient. Fine-needle aspiration (FNAB) biopsy resulted wi...

Aim: The etiology and underlying pathology of non-functional adrenal adenoma has not been clearly defined, yet. Blood pressure levels according to adrenal adenoma size has not been evaluated, yet. Therefore, we evaluated 24 hour ambulatory blood pressure levels in patients with non functional adrenal adenoma.Materials & Methods: We studied thirty newly diagnosed adrenal adenoma patients in a tertiary health-care center. They grouped in two categories...