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Failure of endocrine organs can cause severe disorders: experts

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‘Incidence of thyroid in Italy is as high as in India’

— Photo: K. Gopinathan

All smiles: (From left) Paolo Miccoli of University of Pisa, Italy; R. Jothiramalingam, former president of IAES; K. Kasturirangan, Director of NIAS; and B.R. Prabhakara, CEO, Gokula Education Foundation, at the annual conference of Indian Association of Endocrine Surgeons, in Bangalore on Saturday.

Bangalore: If you thought you should worry only about your heart and brain, here is news. Failure of small endocrine organs such as thyroid, parathyroid, adrenals and pancreatic islets can also cause severe disorders such as epilepsy, hypertension, obesity, recurrent urinary stones, bone cysts and even fractures.

These were some of the issues discussed at the ninth annual conference of the Indian Association of Endocrine Surgeons at the M.S. Ramaiah Hospital here on Saturday.

Inaugurated by the Director of the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), K. Kasturirangan, the conference saw presentations by surgeons from Italy, Germany, Japan and Singapore.

Paolo Miccoli, expert in thyroid surgery from the University of Pisa, Italy, said endocrine organs remote controlled various parts of the body by releasing hormones.

Pointing out that the incidence of thyroid in Italy was as high as in India, Dr. Micolli said the invention of minimally invasive tools for thyroid surgeries had helped in treating the disease effectively.

Martin K. Walz, expert in adrenal surgery from Essen University, Germany, presented a paper on “Posterior Retroperitoneoscopic Adrenalectomy – A Story of Success”. Ravi Shankar K. Biddapur, expert in pancreatic transplantations, said that the surgery was associated with people having Type-I diabetes.

S. Vittal, founder-president of the association, and P.S. Venkatesh Rao, professor of Endocrine Surgery, M.S. Ramaiah Memorial Hospital, spoke. B.R. Prabhakara, Chief Executive of the Gokula Education Foundation, and S. Kumar, Dean of M.S. Ramaiah Medical College and Teaching Hospitals, were present.

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