Medical: Endocrinology

Endocrinology is a branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the endocrine system and its specific secretions called hormones. The clinical specialty of endocrinology focuses primarily on the endocrine organs, meaning the organs whose primary function is hormone secretion. These organs include the pituitary, thyroid, adrenals, ovaries and testes, and pancreas.

We provide treatment for following diseases:

1. Adrenal disorders:
2. Glucose homeostasis disorders:
3. Metabolic bone disease:
   • Osteoporosis
   • Osteitis deformans (Paget's disease of bone)
   • Rickets and osteomalacia
4. Pituitary gland disorders:
   • Diabetes insipidus
   • Hypopituitarism (or Panhypopituitarism)
   • Pituitary tumors
   • Pituitary adenomas
   • Prolactinoma (or Hyperprolactinemia)
   • Acromegaly, gigantism
   • Cushing's disease
5. Parathyroid gland disorders
6. Sex hormone disorders:
   • Hypogonadism
   • Disorders of Gender
     • Gender identity disorder
   • Disorders of Puberty
     • Delayed puberty
     • Precocious puberty
   • Menstrual function or fertility disorders
     • Amenorrhea
     • Polycystic ovary syndrome
7. Thyroid disorders
8. Tumours of the endocrine glands not mentioned elsewhere 
9. Autoimmune polyendocrine syndromes
10. Incidentaloma - an unexpected finding on diagnostic imaging, often of endocrine glands.

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