Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Ectopic adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) syndrome is characterized by hypercortisolism due to the hypersecretion of non-pituitary ACTH-secreting tumor leads to the Cushing’s syndrome. Herein, we present a case with Cushing’s syndrome, which is diagnosed ACTH-secreting renal malignant paraganglioma.Case: A 40-year-old woman presented with a 5 month history of newly diagnosed hypertension and diabetes, weakness, hyperpigmentation,...

Introduction: Fahr disease, is a rare pathology characterized by neuropsychiatric symptoms and bilateral symmetrical intracranial, especially basal ganglial calcifications. Although the exact etiology is not known, it is often associated with calcium and phosphorus metabolism disorders. We aim to present two brothers who presented with Fahr’s disease which is a rare condition.Case: Sixty-year-old male patient without a medical history of ilness was ...

Introduction: Non-functional adrenal incidentalomas (AI) are currently quite important since they can also cause metabolic disturbances. This study was designed to evaluate possible insulin resistance indicators and cardiovascular risk factors in patients with non-functional AI.Patients and methods: 83 patients with non-functional AI were enrolled to the study. Control group consisted of 56 patients without any adrenal lesion. Fasting blood glucose, and ...

Background: Clinical practice guidelines on diabetes mellitus (DM) have been developed in 2006 by The Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism of Turkish (SEMT). The ongoing ADMIRE Project is designed to evaluate the effect of implementation of various activities to increase the awareness of physicians on the adherence to SEMT guidelines. The first phase results of the project is presented.Methods: Of 180 physicians evaluated previous 12 months’ medi...

Adrenoleukodystrophy has a prevalence rate of 1:20 000 and is a cause of adrenal insufficiency in association with demyelination within the nervous system due to a failure of β-oxidation of fatty acids within peroxisomes due to reduced activity of very long chain acyl-CoA synthetase. Several forms are recognized; a childhood cerebral form (30 to 40% cases), adult adrenomyeloneuropathy (40% cases), and Addison’s disease only (7% cases). Adrenomyeloneuropathy, by contr...

PURPOSE: To report a case of Cushing’s syndome caused by ectopic ACTH secretion related to a thymic carcinoid presented with trombositopenia.CASE: years old male presented with fatigue, skin rash. At presentation, physical findings showed Cushingoid appearance, with moon face, hyperpigmentation, easy bruising and buffalo hump. His laboratory findings showed platelet: 90.000 (150.000–450.000), ACTH: 609 pg/ml (0–46 pg/ml), baseline cortisol...

AimsDuring April and May 2020 in Turkey, changing priorities in the health system and some restrictions on daily life in order to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2 infection may worsen metabolic control of people with diabetes. We aimed to investigate whether glycemic dysregulation or disturbance of lipid metabolism occur in people with diabetes during the lockdown period.MethodsThis retrospective study includ...

Introduction: It is known that patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) have an increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. In our study, we aimed to investigate the cardiovascular risk factors in medically observed and operated PHPT patients.Materials and methods: Twenty-nine medically observed (group A), 25 pre-operative (group B) and 23 post-operative (group C) patients with PHPT and 26 normocalcemic patients as control group (group D) w...

Diabetes mellitus is a common and growing global health problem leading to several complications. Among these, periodontal diseases are considered as the sixth complication of diabetes. The goals of this cross-sectional study were to assess Turkish diabetic patients’ oral health behaviors and association with demographic characteristics, access to dental care and need for improved health education. The study sample consisted of 121 diabetic patients (43 M/78 F), with a me...

Introduction: Diabetic foot is one of the important and destructive complications of diabetes. During the life time of a diabetic patient, the risk of developing foot ulcers is around 5–15%, and about 20–25% of the causes of hospitalization in diabetic patients are due to foot ulcers. 40–80% of foot ulcers can be infected and resulted in osteomyelitis. Hospitalization due to osteomyelitis is 12 times more in diabetic patients than in non-diabetic population....