Endocrinology
Tınaztepe Health Group Endocrinology Unit provides globally competitive, reliable and qualified service with experienced expert staff to protect the health of our patients, examine, observe, diagnose and treat existing diseases.
Endocrinology is the science that studies hormones that transferred into the blood by endocrine glands in our body and controls many mechanisms in our body and the systems affected by these hormones. It studies the functions of endocrine glands, diseases occurring when they work abnormally and treatments for these diseases.
The most frequently encountered diseases by endocrinologists are diabetes and thyroid diseases.
Apart from these, those below also constitute major areas of interests;
• Diabetes (Diabetes Mellitus) (Type 1 Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes, Gestational Diabetes, various inherited diabetes syndromes)
Hyperglycemia (impaired glucose tolerance, impaired fasting glucose=prediabetes=latent diabetes) and hypoglycemia
Insulin resistance
Obesity
• Thyroid Disorders
Goiter (Enlarged thyroid gland)
Thyroid gland producing too many hormones or not producing enough hormones (hyperthyroidism/hyperthyroidism)
Thyroid nodules
Hashimoto disease
Thyroid cancers
Thyroid disease in pregnant patients
• Pituitary Gland Disorders
Deficient hormones released from the pituitary gland
Excessive prolactin hormone (Hyperprolactinaemia)
Excessive cortisol hormone(Cushing syndrome)
Excessive growth hormone (acromegaly)
Pituitary tumors (releasing hormones or not)
• Parathyroid Gland Disorders
Excessive or deficient parathyroid hormone (hyperparathyroidism, hypoparathyroidism)
• Adrenal Gland Disorders
Disorders of hormones released from adrenal glands
Evaluating, diagnosing and following adrenal gland masses
• Oestrogen deficiency in women
Polycystic ovarian syndrome (menstrual irregularities, weight gain, and hirsutism)
• Testosterone deficiency in men
• Diseases related to bone metabolism
Bone thinning(osteoporosis)
Osteomalacia (vitamin d deficiency)
Other metabolic bone diseases (Paget's disease, Osteogenesis Imperfecta, osteopetrosis)