Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Dento-maxillary system changes associated to thyroid disorders are constantly present. Differentiated impairment, depending on the period of evolution of the disease, explains the high percentage of over 60% of cases with parodonthopathy.Aim of the study: Evaluating the oro-maxillo-facial changes in patients with underdose treated hypothyroidism.Methods: The study group comprised 154 patients with hypothyroidism, 132 ...

Introduction: The incidence of depressive type psychoaffective disorders is significantly increased in patients with chronic autoimmune thyroiditis.Objectives: The study of thyroid autoimmunity correlated with serum levels of TSH, FT4 and depression degree.Methods: The study comprised 70 patients (64 women and 6 men), aged between 18 and 66 years, divided in 4 groups. All study groups were analyzed according to the degree of depres...

Introduction: Juvenile hypothyiroidism shows various complications depending on the correctitude of substitutive treatment.Aims of the study: To identify the massive facial changes with occlusive disorders, dental malpositions, altered chronology of dental eruption, periodontal changes in terms of absence of thyroid replacement therapy or drug sub-dosing.Methods: The study group comprised 24 children, 15 girls and 8 boys; 4 cases o...

The defeat of the metabolic syndrome (MS) of young people with the development of severe vascular and diabetic complications determines the relevance of its study for the purpose of early diagnosis. Changes in blood at the preclinical stage of MS are reversible, while the main pathogenetic factors of MS are insulin resistance and dyslipidemia. The aim of the study was to assess the role of biochemical parameters in the pathogenesis of MS.Materials and me...

Introduction: Benign breast disease is the most common reason for senology consultation.Objectives: To investigate the possible involvement of thyroid autoimmunity and hypovitaminosis D in the development of mammary echo-structural lesions.Method: The BI-RADS score was assigned to categories 1–4 characteristic of benign mastopathy, in three groups of patients: Group 1 (n=167) – with chronic autoimmune thyro...

Introduction: Relative adrenal insufficiency is considered a life threatening event, especially when associated with a serious event like trauma. Recognition and treatment of relative adrenal insufficiency is a challenge for clinical practitioner.Objectives: We wanted to study adrenal dysfunction, diagnostic methods corresponding to the emergency situation for a trauma patient, adaptative capability of hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis and th...

Introduction: The adrenal incidentaloma is defined as a mass lesion found unexpectedly in an adrenal gland by an imaging procedure performed for another reason than suspected adrenal pathology.Objective: To estimate the incidence of the adrenal mass and to define the algorithm for managing patients with incidental adrenal mass; a comparative analysis to the treatises data. The observational study was set one’s face towards by the adrenal incidental ...

Metabolic syndrome (MS) is one of the most pressing problems of modern medicine. MS is a symptom complex of impaired carbohydrate metabolism, abdominal obesity, dyslipidemia, hypertension with an increased risk of developing cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes mellitus. The main reasons for the increase in the incidence of MS are a decrease in physical activity and a high-calorie diet. The prevalence of MS in different countries is 25–30% and varies depending on t...

Case presentation: A 40-year-old Caribbean woman presented with sudden onset palpitations. She described 3 months of progressive shortness of breath, non-productive cough and 7kg weight loss. She denied chest pain, fevers or night sweats, but reported increased stool frequency, gritty eyes, and occasional visual blurring. She appeared cachectic and had a fine tremor, left eye proptosis and a visible pulsatile goitre. She was afebrile, tachypnoeic, hypoxic, hypotensive with fas...

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