Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common endocrinopathy that affects 5–10% of women of reproductive age. It is now recognized as not only a reproductive but also a metabolic disorder with co-morbidities, such as; diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension, etc. All these metabolic abnormalities predispose women with PCOS to atherosclerosis. Plasma viscosity is a major determinant of blood flow in microcirculation. Preliminary data indicate that elevated plasma...

Introduction: Generalized pustular psoriasis is a rare and the most severe form of psoriasis. It is usually seen in adults. Generalized pustular psoriasis is characterized with sudden eruption of yellowish pustule groups on the shiny erythematous skin, measuring 2 to 3 mm, and cover the all body in a short time. In this report, we presented a patient with Cushing’s syndrome (CS) who had determined pustular psoriasis.Case report: A 35 years old woman...

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...

Objective: The metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of metabolic abnormalities with insulin resistance (IR) as a major characteristic. It has been recently questioned that MetS and its related components are associated with functional and morphological alterations of thyroid gland. Aim of our study is to examine thyroid volume and nodule prevalence in patients with MetS in a mild-to-moderate iodine deficient area.Design: Two hundred and seventy-eight p...

Objective: Efficacy of eutectic mixture of local anesthetics (EMLA) cream and the needle-free injection of local anesthesia for reducing the pain associated with fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) of thyroid nodules was previously reported. However, direct comparison of the analgesic efficacy for both methods has not been established yet. The aim of this study was to compare the analgesic efficacy of EMLA cream and needle-free injection of lidocaine for FNAB-associated pain....

Objective: Thyroid hemiagenesis is a rare form of thyroid dysgenesis, in which one thyroid lobe fails to develop. The true prevalence of this rare abnormality is about 0.05–0.2% in normal population. We aimed to determine prevalence of thyroid hemiagenesis in patients with various thyroid disorders and a normal population in a mild to moderate iodine-deficient area.Subjects and methods: The clinical and thyroid ultrasonography records of 4.833 patie...

Objective: Morphologic and functional platelet abnormalities have been previously reported in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and some of these abnormalities have been linked to increased cardiovascular risk. Mean platelet volume (MPV) informs not only about platelet size, but also about its functions. Larger platelets bear more thrombotic potential. Higher MPV values have been correlated with cardiovascular events in the short and long run. Previous studies have d...

In this study we compared plasma adiponectin levels between patients with non-functional adrenal incidentaloma and subclinical Cushing’s syndrome. Our aims were to determine whether there was any difference of plasma adiponectin levels, any relation between cardiovasculer risk factors and to investigate the importance of adiponectin levels in subclinical Cushing’s syndrome patients according to non-functional adrenal incidentaloma patients. The patients referred from...

Distant metastases as initial manifestation of follicular thyroid carcinoma is rare. We report a case of an unusual initial presentation of follicular thyroid carcinoma on follow-up. A 52-year-old woman presented with a 12-month history of progressively enlarging mass in the anterior chest wall. The mass was fixed to the chest wall, measuring 12×10 cm in diameter. Computed tomography demonstrated a lobulated soft-tissue mass (17×11×6 cm) destructing sternum and ...