Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases

Endocrinology Diseases Clinic, also known as "hormone diseases", has every hormonal test and radiological imaging method that is needed in endocrinology and metabolic diseases. Endocrinology patients are followed-up and treated with a holistic approach at the clinic, with expert specialists in fields such as endocrine surgery, otorhinolaryngology, pituitary surgery (neurosurgery), nuclear medicine, diabetic foot and wound team and cardiology.



 

Specialties

The areas of expertise of the Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases Department are Diabetes Mellitus (type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, pregnancy diabetes), obesity, thyroid diseases, parathyroid diseases, pituitary diseases, adrenal gland diseases, hirsutism (excessive hair growth), hormonal diseases of the testis and ovaries, osteoporosis and other metabolic bone diseases, lipid metabolism diseases and rare metabolic diseases.
 

Diabetes Education

In our hospital, diabetes patients are monitored by a team of experienced endocrinologists, dieticians and diabetes nurses, and patients are educated about diabetes. "Breakfast at Liv - Diabetes Patient School" is held once a month on a Saturday morning to educate diabetic patients. At the Endocrinology Clinic, technological treatment and monitoring systems are used, such as insulin pump and continuous blood glucose monitoring. In relation to complications related to diabetes such as eye problems (retinopathy), nerve damage (neuropathy) and foot wounds, the clinic works in cooperation with ophthalmologists, neurologists, and diabetic foot and chronic wound workgroups, consisting of experts in their respective fields.
 

Thyroid Cancer Patients are also Followed-Up

The presence of a specialist in “endocrine surgery" at Liv Hospital and the presence of a good nuclear medicine department with the capability of administering high-dose radioactive iodine ensures that the follow-up of thyroid cancer patients can be accurately and comfortably carried out with a team spirit. At the Endocrinology Clinic, where many thyroid cancer patients are followed-up, all cases that will undergo endocrine surgery are examined and followed -up before and after the surgery by the “Endocrinology Council" when needed.

Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases specializes in hormones and metabolic diseases. These are mainly;

• Diabetes mellitus (type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes)
• Obesity
• Insulin resistance states (metabolic syndrome and polycystic ovary syndrome)
• Weakness (anorexia nervosa, blumia)
• Thyroid diseases (goiter, thyroid nodules, thyroid cancers, thyroid inflammations)
• Parathyroid diseases
• Pituitary diseases (growth retardation-short stature, acromegaly giant disease)
• Adrenal gland (adrenal gland) diseases
• Hirsutism (excessive hair growth)
• Hormonal diseases of testis (egg) and ovary (ovary)
• Infertility
• Osteoporosis and other metabolic bone diseases
• Hypertension (high blood pressure)
• Lipid (blood fat) metabolism diseases and rare metabolic diseases.

In our hospital, clinical services are provided in all these areas of endocrinology.
 

Diabetic Foot Team

In our hospital, diabetes patients are followed by a team of experienced endocrinologists, dietitians and diabetes nurses, and diabetes education is given to patients. In our polyclinic, technological treatment and follow-up systems such as an insulin pump and continuous blood glucose monitoring are applied. With regard to complications related to diabetes such as eye problems (retinopathy), nerve damage (neuropathy), we work in collaboration with an ophthalmologist and neurologist, who are also experienced physicians. Diabetic foot wounds, which are an important complication and can lead to limb loss if not treated quickly, are immediately examined and treated by the "Diabetic Foot Team", which was formed for this purpose and includes specialist doctors from units closely related to the subject. As a result, our Department has all the technical equipment and medical service facilities required by a "diabetes center".
 

Thyroid Team

Liv Thyroid Team provides services in all examination, treatment and follow-up processes of thyroid diseases seen in one out of every 3 adults in our country. The Thyroidology Department, which requires many branches to work together, consists of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Endocrine Surgery, Radiology, Pathology, Nuclear Medicine, Ophthalmology (Eye Health), Ear Nose and Throat departments. In the department where patients who want to make an appointment for thyroid and parathyroid disease are directed, treatment is planned within the framework of scientific approaches accepted all over the world today, after the initial evaluation and examinations are completed quickly by the Thyroid Team, whose joint working principles have been determined.
 

Thyroidology Council

The Thyroidology Council, which brings together physicians from all relevant departments, determines the type of treatment with a multidisciplinary perspective in difficult cases.