Endocrine diseases are disorders of the endocrine system. The branch of medicine associated with endocrine disorders is known as endocrinology. Broadly...
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The endocrine system is a messenger system in an organism comprising feedback loops of hormones that are released by internal glands directly into the...
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Endocrinology (redirect from Endocrinal diseases)
Endocrinology (from endocrine + -ology) is a branch of biology and medicine dealing with the endocrine system, its diseases, and its specific secretions...
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Endocrine glands are ductless glands of the endocrine system that secrete their products, hormones, directly into the blood. The major glands of the endocrine...
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Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 (also known as "Pheochromocytoma (codons 630 and 634) and amyloid producing medullary thyroid carcinoma", "PTC syndrome...
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categorized as multiple endocrine neoplasia syndromes, Von Hippel–Lindau disease and Carney complex are two other autosomal dominant endocrine tumor syndromes...
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autoimmune disease or severe pancreatitis. Forms of diabetes which may not be permanent, depending on the amount of damage to the beta cells of the endocrine pancreas...
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Addison's disease, also known as primary adrenal insufficiency, is a rare long-term endocrine disorder characterized by inadequate production of the steroid...
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Tomer Y, Davies TF (February 1993). "Infection, thyroid disease, and autoimmunity". Endocrine Reviews. 14 (1): 107–20. doi:10.1210/edrv-14-1-107. PMID 8491150...
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An endocrine bone disease is a bone disease associated with a disorder of the endocrine system. An example is osteitis fibrosa cystica.[citation needed]...
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Adrenal gland (section Addison's disease)
rapid response throughout the body in stress situations. A number of endocrine diseases involve dysfunctions of the adrenal gland. Overproduction of cortisol...
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Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN-1) is one of a group of disorders, the multiple endocrine neoplasias, that affect the endocrine system through...
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Hashimoto's thyroiditis (redirect from Hashimoto's disease)
further medical attention, and myxedema coma, which is an endocrine emergency. Graves disease may occur before or after the development of autoimmune thyroiditis...
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ROHHAD (category Endocrine diseases)
condition whose etiology is currently unknown. ROHHAD mainly affects the endocrine system and autonomic nervous system, but patients can exhibit a variety...
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McCune–Albright syndrome (category Diseases named for discoverer)
complex genetic disorder affecting the bone, skin and endocrine systems. It is a mosaic disease arising from somatic activating mutations in GNAS, which...
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Reproductive medicine (section Endocrine Disorders)
Elsevier, pp. 411-426 Strachan, M.W.J., Newell-Price, J. (2014). 'Endocrine disease', in Walker, B.R. (ed.) Davidson's Principles & Practices of Medicine...
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Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome (category Endocrine diseases)
heterogeneous group of rare diseases characterized by autoimmune activity against more than one endocrine organ, although non-endocrine organs can be affected...
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promoting it and factors such as vascular aging and endocrine changes inhibiting it. Parkinson's disease, or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term degenerative...
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Paraneoplastic syndrome (redirect from Paraneoplastic endocrine syndromes)
simulate more common benign conditions. The following diseases manifest by means of endocrine dysfunction: Cushing syndrome, syndrome of inappropriate...
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autoimmune connective-tissue disease that can affect any part of the body. In addition to these, some immune-mediated endocrine diseases with a heritable factor...
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hormones and the related endocrine systems. Many of these hypothalamic hormones act on the pituitary gland. Hypothalamic disease therefore affects the functioning...
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Endocrine disruptors, sometimes also referred to as hormonally active agents, endocrine disrupting chemicals, or endocrine disrupting compounds are chemicals...
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Diabetes (category Endocrine diseases)
Diabetes mellitus, often known simply as diabetes, is a group of common endocrine diseases characterized by sustained high blood sugar levels. Diabetes is due...
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its second highest comorbidity endocrine disease (chiefly hypothyroidism) and that some patients with McArdle disease also have hypertrophy of the calf...
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Lists of animal diseases List of autoimmune diseases List of cancer types List of childhood diseases and disorders List of endocrine diseases List of eponymous...
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Hypothyroidism (category Endocrine diseases)
underactive thyroid, low thyroid or hypothyreosis) is a disorder of the endocrine system in which the thyroid gland does not produce enough thyroid hormones...
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Minigene (section Endocrine diseases)
hyperplasia. One specific example of a splicing error causing an endocrine disease that has been studied using minigenes is a type of growth hormone...
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Dmitry Krasilov (category Deaths from endocrine disease)
Dmitry Krasilov (Russian: Дмитрий Красилов, 22 June 1994 – 18 December 2023), best known by his stage name Pukhlyash (Russian: Пухляш), was a Russian showman...
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Adiposis dolorosa (redirect from Dercumi's disease)
outdated term for many years used synonymously as Dercum's disease, lipedema or Anders disease. While there are numerous references to adiposis dolorosa...
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combination of height and weight velocity can indicate underlying disease of genetic origin, endocrine cause, and/or delayed growth. One of the most common growth...
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