Endocrine Abstracts

Pasireotide is a second-generation, multireceptor-targeted somatostatin receptor ligand and is approved for the treatment of patients with Cushing’s Didease (CD) for whom surgery has failed or is not an option. This retrospective single center study aims to report the efficacy, side effects and follow-up of the treatment with pasireotide alone or in combination with cabergoline in patients without remission after transsphenoidal surgery. Among 187 patients with CD, 15 pat...

Background: İt is known that there is a relationship between some diseases and blood groups.Objective: The objective of our study is to investigate how often ABO and Rh blood groups are seen in benign thyroid diseases, especially in autoimmune-mediated thyroid diseases, and hence whether there is an association between blood groups and thyroid diseases.Method: A total of 958 patients who were followed due to any benign thyroi...

Introduction: Minimally invasive surgery is an alternative surgical approach for primary hyperparathyroidism with less surgical trauma and anesthesia complications. Neck ultrasonography and scintigraphy are still the first step tools for localisating parathyroid lesions. Intact parathyroid hormone (PH) determination in washout samples is really very useful when parathyroid lesions can not be easily distinguished from thyroid lesions or sometimes lymph nodes.<p class="abste...

Introduction: The prevalence of cardiometabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes mellitus, dysipidemia and metabolic syndrome is increased in patients with Klinefelter syndrome (KS). The mechanism by which cardiometabolic risk increases in patients with KS remains to be completely elucidated. We investigated the presence of inflammation, insulin resistance and endothelial dysfunction in an unconfounded population of KS.Methods: A total of 31 patients wi...

Objective: The present study aimed to evaluate thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) levels and anti-thyroid peroxidase antibodies (anti-TPOab) in euthyroid subjects with metabolic syndrome (MetS) and to compare them with healthy subjects without MetS.Design: Study included 173 subjects consisted of 96 subjects with MetS and 77 healthy controls. Gender, age, body mass index (BMI), waist circumfrence (WC), and detailed medical history of all participants were...

Introduction: In this study we aimed to examine the risk factors associated with mortality of pneumonia among diabetic seniors in Turkish general population.Material and methods: After excluding individuals from other minorities, elderly diabetic patients who had been hospitalized due to pneumonia in recent three years consisted of study population. A total of 610 subjects aged 65 years or older were retrospectively analyzed and 196 patients who had no m...

Aim: Euthyroid sick syndrome can be described as abnormal findings on thyroid function tests that occur in the setting of a nonthyroidal illness (NTI) without preexisting hypothalamic-pituitary and thyroid gland dysfunction. In this study we tried to compare thyroid function tests between patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) and healthy controls.Materials and Methods: This study consisted of 31 patients with AKI and 26 healthy controls. All patients&#...

Introduction: Disease control in acromegaly can be achieved by surgery, medical treatment, and radiotherapy either alone or in combination. The acromegaly patients whom tumour shrinkage cannot be provided or growth hormone levels do not decrease under multiple treatment modalities are designated as resistant acromegaly. We aimed in our study to evaluate the clinical features of resistant acromegaly patients and determine their responds to different treatment modalities.<p ...

Introduction: High values of fine needle aspiration washout thyroglobulin (FNA-Tg) are diagnostic for metastatic lesions of thyroid cancer. However, there is not a consensus on cut-off for high Tg level. The most important confounding factor for FNA-Tg is inability to calculate Tg per unit volume because residual aspiration material in the needle cannot be known exactly. Another problem is possible contamination of whole blood during lymph node aspiration. In this study, we ai...

Introduction: Two tumors originating from different cells in the thyroid to metastasis same lymph nodes is very rare. We aimed to present that the same lymph node metastasis of medullary and papillary thyroid in a case.Case: A 4-year-old male presented with backache without a formerly known disease, has no other property in the patient’s history. Vertebra BT was taken and T2, T4, T6 vertebral metastasis have been det...