Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Diabetic patients on insulin therapy are compelled to use sharps such as insulin needles and lancets on a regular basis. As a result thousands of used sharps and bloodstained materials are generated daily by them. While there is a huge concern over sharps disposal practices in healthcare settings, the sharps disposal practices of diabetic patients living at home has been poorly documented.Methodology: Randomly selected sample of 158 diabeti...

Background: Fatigue is one of the most frequently reported adverse events in patients treated with multikinase inhibitors (MKIs). It is present in about 59% and 24% of patients treated with lenvatinib and vandetanib, respectively, associates with a decreased quality of life and often leads to treatment discontinuation. In 2018, for the first time, a correlation between fatigue and primary adrenal insufficiency (PAI) was demonstrated in 12 patients treated with lenvatinib and v...

Background and Objectives: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the presence of hepatic steatosis in the absence of other causes for secondary hepatic fat accumulation. The incidence and the prevalence of the NAFLD has risen exponentially in the recent past especially in the patients with diabetes. We have studied the prevalence of NAFLD in patients with diabetes attending the diabetes clinic based on the biochemical and ultrasonic criteria, the risk factors for diseas...

Background and Objectives: The prevalence of pre-diabetes and diabetes has risen exponentially in the recent past. Though the symptomatic patients frequently undergo testing for the diagnosis of the disease, asymptomatic individuals are not routinely subjected to diagnostic testing. Thus, data on asymptomatic people are still lacking. We have studied the prevalence of pre-diabetes and diabetes in asymptomatic subjects attending the Endocrinology clinic in a tertiary care insti...

Background and Objectives: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common endocrine disorder with heterogeneous eatiology. It is characterized by irregular menses and or oligo/anovulation, hyper-androgenism, and polycystic ovaries. The prevalence and diagnosis of PCOS changes depending on which clinical criteria are utilized to confirm the diagnosis. The prevalence can be high as 15%–20% when the Rotterdam criteria are used. However, there is significant inter-individual va...

Background and Objectives: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common female reproductive endocrine disorder with a prevalence of 15-20%. Although a majority of patients diagnosed with PCOS are overweight/obese, minority can present with normal body mass index of ≤25 kg/M2 which complicate the effective diagnosis and management. We have studied the socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of lean PCOS patients in comparison to obese PCOS patients atten...

Oxidative stress (OS) can have an impact both in the pathogenesis and in the progression of TC, as it has been shown to induce oncogenes and inhibit tumor suppressors. The main source of cellular ROS is represented by NADPH oxidases (NOXs). Aims of the study were to investigate the NOX-derived OS in TC samples, benign nodules and corresponding normal tissues, and to correlate the level of OS with histological classification, genetic profile and clinical and prognostic features...

There are growing evidences suggesting the existence of intra-tumor heterogeneity within the same patient, leading to a different genetic pattern between primary tumour and metastases.We report a paradigmatic example of genetic heterogeneity in thyroid cancer (TC). A 42 years old female patient was submitted, for a follicular TC, to total thyroidectomy and lymphadenectomy followed by radioiodine residue ablation in late 1999. In 2000 and 2001 diagnostic ...

Background and objectives: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is highly prevalent in patients with diabetes as well as the vice versa. It is crucial to identify the characteristics of this group of patients in order to prevent the development, the progression as well as the complications of the disease. We have studied characteristics of patients having both NAFLD and diabetes who are attending a tertiary care institute in Sri Lanka.Methods: A des...

Background: Pregnancy does not cause differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) recurrence in patients without structural or biochemical evidence of disease at the time of conception. However, data regarding pregnancy’s impact in patients with persistent DTC before conception are still controversial.Aim: The aim of the study was to determine whether pregnancy could significantly influence the outcome in DTC patients in persistence before pregnancy, but wit...