Endocrine Abstracts

Facilitating empowerment among people with diabetes is the responsibility of all health care providers. However, research suggests that the health care providers do not have the knowledge and skills to facilitate empowerment. As a result, many Iranian people with diabetes experience low levels of empowerment. The aim of the study was to explore and understand how empowerment occurs in people with diabetes in Iran. Grounded theory method using in-depth interviews, field notes, ...

Objective: Vanadium salts have been suggested as a possible therapeutic agent for treating diabetes mellitus in the experimental models of the disease. This study was done to show the correlation between amelioration of diabetic signs and preservation of pancreatic islets in vanadyl sulphate treated streptozotocin - induced diabetic rats.Methods: Diabetes was induced in male Wistar rats by intravenous injection of 40 milligram per kilogram streptozotocin...

Objective: Vanadium salts have been suggested as a possible therapeutic agent for treating diabetes mellitus in the experimental models of the disease. This study was done to show the correlation between amelioration of diabetic signs and preservation of pancreatic islets in vanadyl sulphate treated streptozotocin - induced diabetic rats.Methods: Diabetes was induced in male Wistar rats by intravenous injection of 40 milligram per kilogram streptozotocin...

The insulin tolerance test (ITT) is used to determine the integrity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) and hypothalamic-somatotroph (GH) axes in patients suspected of ACTH and GH deficiency. In adults a cortisol response <500nmol/L is considered pathological and a GH peak <9mU/L is consistent with severe GH deficiency. Exercise is an alternative stimulus to GH release which may be used to diagnose GH deficiency during childhood but is rarely used during adult li...

Background: current studies reported that pregnancy in women with hypopituitarism is rare and several obestristics and endocrinologic complications must resolve for successful pregnancy among these women. Here we report one woman with hypopituitarism who became pregnant after hormonal replacement therapy.Method: A therapeutic strategy for 34 years old pregnant women as known case of pituitary surgery and completed pan hypopituitarism was designed. We per...

Introduction: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) frequently accompanied by insulin resistance metabolic abnormality. There are limited data on metabolic complications in women belonging to the PCOS phenotypes as defined by the Rotterdam criteria. Our objective was to investigate the prevalence of impaired fasting glucose (IFG) metabolism and dyslipidemia between different phenotypes in Iranian infertile women with PCOS.Methods: We conducted a cross section...

This is a rare case of a previously healthy 21-year old Caucasian male (CM) diagnosed with a new onset of Kawasaki disease concomitant with diabetes mellitus and thyroiditis. He was admitted to ER with high fever (103.0F), generalized erythematous rash with desquamation of palms and soles, fissured lips, arthralgias, and malaise. Physical exam revealed anterior cervical lymph nodes enlargement on the right side. At the time of admission WBC=8300 cell/ml Eosinophil=6.2%, Hb/Hct...

Background: Different management modalities are used to control hyperglycaemia associated with type 2 diabetes (T2DM). Research has indicated an association of single or combined insulin therapy with increased cardiovascular events. Metabolic syndrome (MS), as well as increased levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), and gamma glutamyl transferase (GGT) are also associated with increased CVD risk.Aim: To study the relationship between management modality, gl...

Aim: Dose corrected for thyroid gland size is one of the methods used to determine radioactive iodine (RAI) activity for patients with Graves disease (GD). This study was aimed to investigate the real-world success rate of this method and the predictors of success after first treatment.Methods: This is a retrospective study of 80 patients with GD treated between 2014 and 2020 in a tertiary referral hospital in Almada, Portugal. The successful group was d...