Endocrine Abstracts

Anemia occurs early and predicts high risk of cardiovascular events and death in patients with diabetic nephropathy (DN). It results from various factors including erythropoietin (EPO) deficiency and inflammation. The aim of this study was to evaluate clinical correlates of TNF alpha levels in anemic patients with early diabetic nephropathy. We investigated 95 anemic patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and chronic kidney disease (stages 1–3). Glomerular filtration rate...

Anemia occurs early and predicts high risk of cardiovascular events and death in patients with diabetic nephropathy (DN). It results from various factors including erythropoietin (EPO) deficiency and inflammation. The aim of this study was to evaluate clinical correlates of TNF alpha levels in anemic patients with early diabetic nephropathy. We investigated 95 anemic patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and chronic kidney disease (stages 1–3). Glomerular filtration rate...

Background: In accordance with the WHO Classification of tumours of endocrine organs (Lyon, 2004) clear cell thyroid lesions have not been separated in one category as they are occurred quite rare, characterized by various cellular origin, heterogeneous morphological type, and malignant potential. Difficulties of morphological diagnosis of clear cell thyroid lesions are also obvious.Aim: Retrospective morphological study of clear cell thyroid tumours has...

Materials and methods: A survey was 95 people (45 people with diabetes mellitus type 1, 50 people with diabetes mellitus type 2). The age of examined patients 39.12±3.8. The disease duration ranged from 6 to 20 years. Level of biochemical indicators – normal limits. Condition of mineral density of a bone tissue it was estimated by method of a dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA). The analysis of DEXA researches showed that change of mineral density of a bone tissu...

Aims: Anaemia occurs early and predicts high risk of cardiovascular events and death in patients with diabetic nephropathy. In our previous studies we have shown that haemoglobin level has a negative correlation with serum levels of proinflammatory cytokines in this clinical group. It could be hypothesised that treatment of anaemia has anti-inflammatory effects. The aim of this study was to assess the influence of treatment with erythropoietin alpha on serum level of tumour ne...

Background: Previous studies show poor consensus on the use of GH stimulation tests. Sex steroid priming and re-testing in the transition period are areas not previously surveyed. In light of more recent guidance and expert opinion, this survey aims to analyse the diagnostic processes employed in the diagnosis of GH deficiency (GHD) in the UK.Methods: Data were collected from tertiary paediatric endocrinologists, paediatricians with a specialist interest...

Introduction: Anemia is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events and death in patients with diabetic nephropathy (DN). However, there are still a lot of contradictions related to the benefits and risks of antianemic treatment in this group of patients due to variety of non-hematopoietic effects of erythropoietin. The aim of this study was to assess the influence of erythropoietin therapy on renal function and proteinuria in patients with early DN.<p class...

This is the review of original data concerning the role of some metabolic hormones (GH, leptin, ghrelin, obestatin), growth factors (IGF-I, IGFBPs, EGF, thrombopoietin), intracellular mediators of their action (cyclic nucleotides, protein kinases, PKA, MAPK, CDK, transcription factors, CREB, STAT-1, p53 and related cDNA, siRNA and miRNA gene constructs) on basic ovarian functions (cell proliferation, apoptosis, secretion, oogenesis, ovulation, production and viability of pups)...

Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is a malignant tumour of follicular cell origin that is characterized by a broad diversity of histological variants. A genesis of multifocal PTC may be explained by both intrathyroid tumour dissemination and multiple focuses of tumour origination. A combination of two different focuses of PTC characterized by various molecular alterations of tumour cells in one thyroid could be rarely occurred. Follicular variant has similar clinical behaviour...

Background: Diabetes mellitus is one of the serious acromegaly complication.As well known, glycemia influences growth hormone (GH) secretion. From this point of view, it is interesting to investigate feature peculiarity of GH and Insulin like Growth Factor 1 (IFG-1) secretion when acromegaly is coupled with diabetes mellitus.Aim: Of this study was to investigate diabetes mellitus influence on GH and IGF-1 levels in acromegalic pati...