Endocrine and metabolic diseases. Adrenal diseases.

Corticosteroids in Endocrine Diseases

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Endocrine and metabolic diseases: Treatment of infertility and menopausal symptoms.

The development of effective treatment has a marvellously encouraging effect on the incidence of a disease. When, as has happened with the occasional spectacular overkill of gonadotrophin treatment of infertility, the media takes an intense interest in the treatment, the number of patients seeking it rises still more steeply. There are, however, more worthy reasons for the rising pressure. The ...

Endothelial dysfunction in cardiovascular and endocrine-metabolic diseases: an update.

The endothelium plays a vital role in maintaining circulatory homeostasis by the release of relaxing and contracting factors. Any change in this balance may result in a process known as endothelial dysfunction that leads to impaired control of vascular tone and contributes to the pathogenesis of some cardiovascular and endocrine/metabolic diseases. Reduced endothelium-derived nitric oxide (NO) ...

Mass Spectrometric Applications for Diagnosing Metabolic and Endocrine Diseases

Endocrine Dysfunctions in Patients with Inherited Metabolic Diseases

OBJECTIVE Inherited metabolic diseases (IMDs) can affect many organ systems, including the endocrine system. There are limited data regarding endocrine dysfunctions related to IMDs in adults, however, no data exist in pediatric patients with IMDs. The aim of this study was to investigate endocrine dysfunctions in patients with IMDs by assessing their demographic, clinical, and laboratory data. ...