Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) is frequently associated with other autoimmune diseases. In this study, we aimed to evaluate thyroid autoantibodies, celiac antibodies and antiparietal antibody in patients with type 1 DM.Methods: Thyroid antithyroid peroxidase (anti-TPO) and antithyroglobulin (anti-Tg) antibodies, antiinsulin, antiislet cell and anti-glutamic acid decarboxylase (anti-GAD) antibodies, antiparietal antibody, antiendomisium, anti...

Introduction: Common reasons of chronically elevated liver enzymes are; fatty liver associated with alcohol abuse or obesity, chronic viral hepatitis, autoimmune hepatitis, chronic bilier disease and hereditary metabolic disorders. Adrenocortical insufficiency can also cause elevated liver enzymes. Until now, there are few cases in the literature with abnormal liver function associated with Addison’s disease. We reported this case to kept mind the Addison’s disease w...

Introduction: Periodic review of hospital deaths is important to know the changing pattern of mortality in our environment. Ankara Ataturk Education and Research Hospital is a tertiary center with 18 in-patient beds in Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinic. Critical patients with endocrine-related diseases are also followed in intensive care unit. In this study, we aimed to evaluate demographic characteristics, hospitalization indications and causes of death in patients who died...

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...

Objective: We aimed to evaluate the frequency of malignancy in patients with follicular lesion or follicular neoplasia in cytological examination.Method: About 29 patients who had follicular neoplasia or follicular lesion in cytological examination after ultrasound guided thyroid fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) were included in the study. Histopathologic results were evaluated after thyroidectomy in all patients.Results: There...

Introduction: The incidence, cell origin, histopathologic features and prognosis of papillary and medullary carcinoma are considered to be completely different. Simultaneous occurrence of medullary and papillary thyroid carcinoma in the same patient is rare. Here, we present a patient with synchronous medullary thyroid carcinoma and papillary microcarcinoma occurring in a thyroid with chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis.Case: A 47 years old woman with no his...

Background: Ca 19-9 is a tumor-associated antigen. In this study, we aimed to compare Ca 19-9 levels in type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) patients and healthy control group.Method: Two hundred and fifteen type 2 DM patients (82 male and 133 female) and 209 healthy control group (79 male, 130 female) age, sex and body mass index(BMI) matched were included in the study. Duration of diabetes, HbA1c and presence of complications were analyzed. Cases with high se...

Aim: In this study, we aimed to evaluate ABO blood groups and Rh factor in patients with thyroid cancer. We also assessed whether the ABO/Rh factor had any effect on prognosis, agressive features and advanced stage of thyroid malignancies.Methods: Medical records of patients who underwent thyroidectomy between December 2006 and September 2014 were evaluated retrospectively. Demographical and clinical features, cytological results (according to Bethesda c...

Introduction: Lithium is the preferred and most efficacious therapy for acute and maintenance therapy of bipolar depressive disorder. Lithium use is associated with an increased incidence of hyperparathyroidism (4.3–6.3%) and have a female preponderance. Bilateral neck exploration was the most common surgical approach while a few patients were managed medically. The initial management of Lithium-associated hyperparathyroidism (LAH) is medical intervention which includes d...

ObjectivesAdherence to treatment is one of the most important parameters that affect the success of the treatment in hypothyroidism. We aimed to evaluate the use and adherence to treatment and determine the factors that are related to adherence in patients on levothyroxine therapy.Materials and MethodsPatients older than 18 years old and using levothyroxine for hypothyroidism were recruited. Demographical, so...