Endocrine Abstracts

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: Olfactory and gustatory dysfunction in patient with diabetes mellitus (DM) and its pathophysiology were studied in many previous studies. Some studies reported that there was a relationship between type 1 DM (T1DM) and olfactory and gustatory functions the presence of diabetic complications. However findings are limited and controversial. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between olfactory and gustatory scores and patients with non-complicat...

Celiac Disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory disorder and requires life-long treatment and follow-up. Mean platelet volume (MPV), determinant of platelet function, is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a multiplex risk factor that arises from insulin resistance accompanying abnormal adipose deposition and function. It is a risk factor for coronary heart disease, as well as for diabetes, fatty liver, and several cancers....

Introduction and aims: Subacute thyroiditis (ST) is a spontaneous remitting inflammatory disease of thyroid gland. Although there is no clear evidence for its specific etiology, multiple factors may responsible for this inflammatory reaction. Mean platelet volume (MPV) is a new important inflammatory marker that indicates disease activity. Aim of this study is to evaluate MPV value in patients with subacute thyroiditis.Materials and methods: Thirty-one p...

Aim: In this study our aim was to investigate the effects of non-functional adrenal incidentalomas to cardio-metabolic risk factors and endothelial function.Materials and methods: Our study involved 30 patients with non-functional adrenal incidentaloma (patient group), and two control groups without adrenal incidentaloma (control group 1 involved 26 patients have DM and/or HT and control group 2 involved 24 healthy control). Metabolic parameters (fasting...

Objectives: We aimed to find if there is any relationship between vitamin D levels and clinical, laboratory parameters and osteoporosis, in primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT).Material and methods: 128 patients with PHPT and 30 patients as a control group were analysed. Patients with PHPT were grouped due to vitamin D levels and levels low than 20 μg/ml accepted as deficiency.Results: Patients with 25-OH vitamin D <20 &#956...

Objectives: Coexisting thyroid nodules affect the treatment choice for PHPT. We aimed to evaluate the incidence of concomitant thyroid nodules in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism and to investigate the relationship between thyroid nodule volume, thyroid gland volume and thyroid nodules with clinical and laboratory parameters.Materials and methods: This study was carried out at Ankara University Endocrinology and Metabolism Department. 183 patien...

Introduction: Multiple endocrine neoplasia type-1 (MEN-1) is an autosomal dominant disorder MEN-1 diagnosis is established as the occurrence of two or more MEN-1 associated tumour or one MEN-1 associated tumour in a patient that have 1 MEN-1 family member or positive MEN-1 genetic mutation. MEN-1 associated tumours usually involve the parathyroid glands, anterior pituitary and enteropancreatic cells but many other tumours may be seen. In this report, we presented a gastrointes...

Objective: To determine the correlates of visceral and subcutaneous fat thickness in non-diabetic obese and morbidly obese patients.Methods: A total of 31 obese female outpatients composed of morbidly obese (n=16, BMI of ≧40 kg/m2) and obese (n=15, BMI of 30–39.9 kg/m2) patients were included in the present study. Data on age, anthropometrics, blood biochemistry, HOMA–IR, carotid intima-media thick...

Background: Recombinant human thyroid-stimulating hormone (rhTSH)-stimulated serum thyroglobulin (Tg) (s-Tg) and (131)I whole-body scanning (WBS) are supposed to provide equal diagnostic information with thyroxine withdrawal (THW) at follow-up thyroid cancer patients without the symptoms of hypothyroidism. We aimed to compare the WBS and s-Tg levels after thyrogen injection and thyroid hormone withdrawal for tumor recurrence/persistance according to the risk groups.<p clas...