Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: 46 XX male syndrome generally presented as hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism.Case report: A 39-year-old man was referred to our clinic with a pituitary mass. He had a history of pituitary adenoma of 45×28×40 mm size which was found after his admission with right-sided vision loss at 2006. The hormonal analyses showed hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism without any excess hormone levels. A transcranial pituitary adenomectomy was performed....

Introduction: Thyroid dysfunctions and autoimmunity may concur in the pathogenesis of hemostasis abnormalities. Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) is a frequently chronic autoimmune disease in thyroid gland. The aim of our study were to comparison the hemostatic parameters in patients with HT and control subjects.Method: A total of 52 women were evaluated. Age, TSH, free T3, free T4, anti M, anti Tg, TAFI, TFPI, PAI-1, tPA, PF-4, fib...

Background: The main objective of this study is to establish the rate of malignancy in residual thyroid tissue in patients with DTC, and whether the serum thyroglobulin (Tg) level before complementary thyroidectomy and histopathologic characteristics of the tumor would be able to foresee malignancy in residual tissue.Methods: Our study included 58 patients with DTC that underwent complementary thyroidectomy that results were analyzed retrospectively. Pat...

Aim: In this study, our aim is to evaluate the ultrasonographic features and histopathologic results of the thyroid nodules which are defined as AUS and contribute to the therapeutic approach of these nodules.Methods: We evaluated 95 nodules of 92 patients, who have nodular or multinodular goiter and had diagnosed AUS at least in one nodule with fine-needle aspiration (FNA). Patients’ thyroid function tests, ultrasonographic features of the nodules ...

Introduction: The incidence of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) during pregnancy is quite low. There have been a few anecdotal reports of NHL that arises from the thyroid gland.Case Report: A 28-year-old female patient presented with a neck swelling, pain and respiratory distress while she was in the 17th week of her first pregnancy. Subtotal thyroidectomy was performed and combined histological and immunohistochemical analyses led to the diagnosis of diffuse ...

A 44-year-old man with 6 months history of headache, fatique, depressive mood, anorexia, impotence, decreased libido, poliuria and polidypsia. The results of the physical examination were normal, except the patient had noduler guatr. Baseline hormonal investigations and dinamic tests showed panhypopituitarism and partial central diabetes insipidus. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the pituitary gland showed enlarged pituitary gland and a marked thickening (4.5 mm) of the in...

Aim: In our study, in regard with the women cases of obesity, we have aimed at determining the correlation that existed among the anemia markers, insulin resistance (IR) and fact of Metabolic syndrome (MetS).Method: We have conducted our assessment 67 women who had resorted to our clinic due to their obesity complaints and were in the premenopausal and mean age 36.7±8.8 years. We have put forward the demographic data and measured the biochemical (fa...

Primary thyroid lymphoma is an uncommon malignancy; it accounts for <2% of all extranodal lymphomas and <5% of all thyroid malignancies.Case report: A 52-year-old male patient who was known to have a nodule in his thyroid gland for many years presented with instantaneous enlargement of his existing nodule and with appearance of ipsilateral cervical lymphadenopathy. On thyroid ultrasonography, a giant nodule of 38.4×31.6×45.5 mm size, an...

Aim: Hypoadiponectinemia is known to be associated with insulin resistance, diabetes and obesity. Since gestational diabetes is together with increased body mass index (BMI) and decreased insulin sensitivity, the evaluation of adiponectin levels in these patients is interesting. We investigated the relationship between adiponectin and glucose tolerance during pregnancy and after delivery.Materials and methods: We evaluated plasma adiponectin levels, insu...

Endocan has been suggested as a marker for endothelial dysfunction. Some evidence exists that Graves’ disease may be associated with impaired endothelial function. The aim of the study was to evaluate serum endocan, endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and carotid intima media thickness (CIMT) in patients with Graves’ disease. Thirty one newly diagnosed patients with Graves’ disease and 31 healthy volunteers with similar age and sex were examined. Serum endocan, VEG...