Endocrine Abstracts

One of the main problems encountered with increased levels of serum PTH is decrease in bone mineral density in the long term. Secondary hyperparathyroidism due to vitamin D deficiency leads to mineralization disorders of the bones, low bone mineral density, osteoporosis and ultimately an increased risk of bone fracture in adults. In this study, we aimed to determine the reasons of secondary hyperparathyroidism for bone mineral density.One hundred and thi...

In this study, we aimed to investigate the causes of elevated PTH levels in postmenopausal women without the use of drugs that may affect of PTH levels and without concomitant diseases.A total of 156 postmenopausal women, aged ≥ 50 years, had no menstruation for at least 2 years and had no disease known to affect calcium metabolism were considered. Education, occupation, average duration of exposure to sunlight per day in summer and winter, consump...

Background: Hemangiopericytoma (HPC) is a malignant vasculary tumor originate from pericytes around the capillary and venules. İntracranial hemangiopericytomas usually arise from meninges, rarely they locate periventricular, suprasellar or sellar. Because of the malignancy potential, the differential diagnosis is important. A rare case of sellar HPC mimicking non-functional pituitary adenoma will be presented.Case report: A 45 years old woman has a...

Background: The prevalence of the diabetes mellitus is rapidly increasing particularly in developing countries. For effective management of diabetes, patients must be actively involved in their care. The aim of the study was to assess the knowledge and self-care practices and contribution of the education to this knowledge level and glycemic control.Material methods: We formed patients groups consisting of 15 to 30 diabetic patients. Firstly, patients su...

Objective: The prevalence of overweight and obesity has been increasing for several decades. Few studies have recently showed functional and morphological changes of the thyroid gland in relation to obesity. The aim of this study was to correlate thyroid nodule size with body mass index (BMI), waist-hip ratio (WHR) and thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) levels.Methods: A total of 119 patients diagnosed with euthyroidic nodular goiter were included in this...

Introduction: Thyroid papillary carcinomas originate from thyroid follicular epithelia and are the most frequent thyroid differentiated carcinomas. Medullary thyroid carcinomas originate from thyroid parafollicular C cells and %25 are a component of Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia (MEN) syndromes. Co-incidence of the two condition on the same patient is so rare.Case: 78 years old female patient who has had simple goiter for 10 years, was investigated about ...

Introduction: Differentiated thyroid carcinomas (DTC) are originated from thyroid follicular epithelial cells and comprises %90 of all thyroid carcinomas. Researches indicate that sorafenib is more efficacious than other chemotherapeutic agents on metastatic iodide refractory DTCs.Material and methods: In our center, between 2013 and 2015, sorafenib was applied to six patients who had iodide refractory metastatic DTC. Five of the patients were female. Th...

Introduction: Impaired fasting glucose (IFG) is defined as being present in those whose fasting blood glucose level is consistently elevated above normal, but is not high enough to be considered as having diabetes mellitus. Impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) is defined as being present in those whose second hour plasma glucose level is higher than normal, but is not high enough to be considered as having diabetes mellitus. Low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels are associated with...

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is an important public health problem due to defects of the effect of the insulin or insulin deficiency, accompanied by chronic microvascular complications with diabetic nephropathy is characterised by proteinuria that the increasing number of patients progress to end stage renal disease. Many peptide hormone made in etiopathogenesis is situated, although adropin which discovered in recent years involves in glucose homeostasis, its relation to d...

Introduction: Primary squamous cell carcinoma (PSCC) of thyroid is a rare type of thyroid malignancies because thyroid gland lacks squamous epithelium. It is seen in <1% of all thyroid malignancies. During last 30 years only about 90 cases were published. PSCC is an aggressive tumour as well as rare.Case report: We present a 60-year-old female who had been followed up for multiple nodules in thyroid in our outpatient clinic for 2 years. Her serum fre...