Factors affecting hypocalcaemia following total thyroidectomy: a prospective study.

Objective: After thyroidectomy hypocalcaemia is the most significant complication for clinicians. In this study, we investigated the factors associated with development of hypocalcaemia after thyroidectomy.

Materials And Methods: We investigated the patients prospectively for age, gender, preoperative diagnosis, hormonal status, operative time, operating surgeon, existence of parathyroid gland injury at the operation, parathyroid gland auto-transplantation, preoperative use of anti-thyroid drugs and amount of bleeding at the operation.

The predictive value of routine preoperative laboratory parameters in patients with sporadic and solitary parathyroid adenoma.

Objective: Primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT) is a disease in which the diagnosis depends increasingly on laboratory tests since the majority of patients are elderly people without typical symptoms. The aim of this study was to calculate the specificity and sensitivity rates, and positive predictive value of blood Ca, P, ALP, and iPTH levels in patients with PA.

Materials And Methods: We calculated the specificity and sensitivity rates, and positive predictive value of blood calcium (Ca), phosphorous (P), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), and intact parathormone (iPTH) levels in patients with sporadic and solitary parathyroid adenoma (PA).

Conjunctival flora in patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) are prone to infection because glucose in the skin, urine, mucous membranes, and tears promotes growth of microorganisms. Conjunctival flora develops soon after birth, and some saprophytic conjunctival flora play a pathogenic role when immune function is compromised, which can lead to serious infection. DM is one condition that may compromise immune status.

Neuropad indicator test for diagnosis of sudomotor dysfunction in type 2 diabetes.

Neuropad is a new indicator test used to diagnose sudomotor dysfunction, a component of autonomic neuropathy. In this cross-sectional study, Neuropad is evaluated and compared with corrected QT (QT c), another test used in the diagnosis of autonomic neuropathy. The indicator test measures sweat production on the basis of a color change of cobalt (II) chloride solution from blue to pink upon absorption of water.

Exophthalmometric values in a normal Turkish population living in the northeastern part of Turkey.

Background: Exophthalmometry is a simple examination procedure used for the early diagnosis of many of the orbital pathologies. The exophthalmometric measures tend to vary with age, sex, and race. Therefore, a lot of investigators conducted researches to determine the minimum, maximum, and normal values of exophthalmometric measures in their populations.

Iodine deficiency and goiter prevalence of the adult population in Erzurum.

It is believed that total goiter prevalence in Turkey is as high as 30.5%. The iodine deficiency is the distinct etiologic factor in the development of goiter.

Liver function tests during antithyroid therapy in hyperthyroidism.

Aims: To investigate the liver function tests during antithyroid treatment in the patients with hyperthyroidism.

Methodology: Four hundred sixty five patients with hyperthyroidism (285 Graves' disease and 180 toxic nodular/multinodular goiter) and fifty healthy subjects were included in the study. The patients who had abnormal liver function tests were excluded from the study.

The presence of the antigliadin antibodies in autoimmune thyroid diseases.

Aims: To investigate the presence of the antigliadin antibodies in the patients with Graves' disease and Hashimoto's thyroiditis.

Methodology: Four hundred patients with autoimmune thyroid disease (280 Graves' disease and 120 Hashimoto's thyroiditis ) were included in the study. The patients with celiac sprue patients were excluded.

The release of insulin in fatty liver.

Aims: To evaluate the blood levels of lipids, insulin resistance and the release of insulin in the patients with fatty liver.

Methodology: Ninety one patients with fatty liver and forty seven healthy subjects were included in the study. The diagnosis of fatty liver was established by measuring blood levels of lipids and measuring liver echogenity by ultrasound.

The effects of calcitonin on bone resorption in hyperthyroidism: a placebo-controlled clinical study.

The effects of intranasal calcitonin on bone metabolism were investigated in patients with hyperthyroidism. Urinary deoxypyridinoline (uDPD) levels were measured as a bone turnover marker and lumbar spine (L2) bone mineral density (BMD) was measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) in 7 patients who were given only antithyroid drug (group 1), in 10 patients who were given antithyroid drug plus intranasal calcitonin (group 2), and in 10 healthy subjects who were given placebo (group 3) at the beginning and at the end of the study. The study continued until the patients with hyperthyroidism became euthyroidic according to the laboratory values.

Hydatid cysts of the adrenal gland: review of nine patients.

Adrenal cysts are very rare lesions, especially with parasitic origin. But with the wider application of ultrasonography (US) and computed tomography (CT) more adrenal cysts are detected incidentally. To gain more insight into this entity, the records of nine patients with hydatid cysts of adrenal gland seen at our department from January 1980 till January 2002 are reviewed.

The effect of calcitonin and growth hormone on urinary deoxypyridinoline levels in burned patients.

Reduced bone formation and bone loss have been documented in patients following burn injury. Urinary deoxypyridinoline (DPD) is accepted as a marker of collagen breakdown activity. Because calcitonin (CT) diminishes bone resorption and growth hormone (GH) increases bone formation and density in GH-deficient patients, we studied the short-term effects of CT and GH on urinary DPD levels in burned patients.