Ioannis Ilias,1 Luai Said Tayeh,1 Isidoros Pachoundakis2 1Department of Endocrinology, Elena Venizelou Hospital; 2Department of Sociology, Panteion University; Athens, Greece There is today an imperative need to raise health workers’ awareness of contemporary cultural diversity and different beliefs, values and attitudes concerning health and disease in order to provide culturally appropriate and professionally competent care. Read More
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Central precocious puberty due to hypothalamic hamartoma in neurofibromatosis type 1
Emanuele Bartolini,1,2 Stefano Stagi,3 Perla Scalini,3 Andrea Bianchi,4 Antonio Ciccarone,5 Mario Mascalchi4 1Neurology Unit and Laboratories, Anna Meyer Children’s University Hospital, Florence; 2Stella Maris Foundation, Calambrone, Pisa; 3Health Sciences Department, University of Florence, Anna Meyer Children’s University Hospital, Florence; 4Quantitative and Functional Neuroradiology Research Program at Anna Meyer Children’s and Careggi University Hospitals, University of Read More
A short evolutionary history of FSH-stimulated spermatogenesis
Ilpo Huhtaniemi Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Campus, London, UK; and Department of Physiology, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland Abstract It is well established in various experimental models that luteinizing hormone (LH) stimulated testosterone (T) production of Leydig cells is the key Read More
Pasireotide for malignant insulinoma
Amit Tirosh,1,2 Salomon M. Stemmer,2,3 Evgeny Solomonov,4 Eldad Elnekave,3 Wolfgang Saeger,5 Yelena Ravkin,6 Kobi Nir,7 Yeela Talmor,8 Ilan Shimon1,2 1Endocrine Institute, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tiqva; 2Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University; 3Institute of Oncology, Davidoff Center, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tiqva; 4Surgery, Rivka Ziv medical center, Sefad; 5Institute of Neuropathology, University of Hamburg, Read More
The Sertoli cell as the orchestra conductor of spermatogenesis: spermatogenic cells dance to the tune of testosterone
Fotios Dimitriadis,1 Chara Tsiampali,2 Nikolaos Chaliasos,1 Panagiota Tsounapi,3 Atsushi Takenaka,3 Nikolaos Sofikitis1 1Laboratory of Molecular Urology and Genetics of Human Reproduction, Department of Urology, Ioannina University School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece; 2Department of Ophthalmology, Kilkis General Hospital, Kilkis, Greece; 3Department of Urology, Tottori University School of Medicine, Yonago, Japan Abstract Spermatogenesis is contingent upon hormones Read More
Testicular Descent
Charalampos Mamoulakis,1 Spyridon Antypas,2 Frank Sofras,1 Atsushi Takenaka,3 Nikolaos Sofikitis4 1Department of Urology, University General Hospital of Heraklion, University of Crete Medical School, Heraklion, Crete, Greece; 2First Pediatric Surgery Clinic, Aghia Sophia Children’s Hospital, Athens, Greece; 3Department of Urology, Tottori University School of Medicine, Yonago, Japan; 4Laboratory of Molecular Urology and Genetics of Human Reproduction, Read More
Long-term follow-up results of growth hormone therapy for patients with adult growth hormone deficiency
Hidetoshi Ikeda,1 Masataka Kudo1,2 1Research Institute for Pituitary Disease, Southern Tohoku General Hospital, Koriyama, Japan, 2Division of Nephrology, Endocrinology, and Vascular Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Japan Abstract Objective: We evaluated the long-term effects of growth hormone (GH) on markers of quality of life, glucose metabolism, and lipid metabolism to validate Read More
The growth endocrine axis and inflammatory responses after laparoscopic cholecystectomy
Themistoklis Floros,1 Anastassios Philippou,2 Dimitrios Bardakostas,1 Dimitrios Mantas,1 Michael Koutsilieris2 12nd Propaedeutic Department of Surgery, Laiko General Hospital, 2Department of Experimental Physiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Athens, Greece Abstract OBJECTIVE: It is well known that conventional surgery leads to detrimental immune and catabolic responses, thus there is growing interest in the Read More
TSH-secreting pituitary adenomas treated by gamma knife radiosurgery: our case experience and a review of the literature
Zadalla Mouslech,1 Maria Somali,2 Anastasia Konstantina Sakali,2 Christos Savopoulos,1 George Mastorakos,2 Apostolos I. Hatzitolios1 11st Medical Propedeutic Dept of Internal Medicine, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, Aretaieio Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece Abstract A 43-year-old woman, previously misdiagnosed as having primary Read More
Hypogonadism as a possible link between metabolic diseases and erectile dysfunction in aging men
Giovanni Corona,1 Silvia Bianchini,1 Alessandra Sforza,1 Linda Vignozzi,2 Mario Maggi2 1Endocrinology Unit, Maggiore-Bellaria Hospital, Medical Department, Azienda-Usl Bologna, Bologna; 2Sexual Medicine and Andrology Unit, Department of Experimental, Clinical and Biomedical Sciences, University of Florence, Florence; Italy Abstract There is evidence demonstrating that sexual complaints represent the most specific symptoms associated with late onset hypogonadism, while Read More