Endocrinology Conditions Treated
Many of our patients require regular evaluations, testing, treatment and preventive medicine, so providing easy access to care is a top priority for our endocrinology and diabetes team.
For the convenience of our patients and patient families, we offer full-service outpatient care at the medical center, as well as multiple locations throughout North Texas.
- Obesity
- Hypoglycemia
- Growth disorders
- Early and late puberty
- Thyroid disease
- Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH)
- Differences of Sex Development (DSD)
- Adolescent menstrual problems
- Polycystic ovary syndrome
- Gynecomastia
- Metabolic bone disease
- Pituitary disease
- Endocrine tumor
- Type 1 and 2 diabetes
- Metabolic syndrome
- Obesity and related disorders
- Lipid abnormalities
- Single gene diabetes (monogenic diabetes)
- KATP-HI - the most common and severe form of HI. There are actually two types:
- Diffuse congenital hyperinsulinism (DiCHI).
- Focal congenital hyperinsulinism (FoCHI)
- Glutamate dehydrogenase hyperinsulinism (GDH-HI)
- Glucokinase hyperinsulinism
- Short-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase hyperinsulinism (SCHAD-HI)
- Insulinomas (insulin secreting tumors of the pancreas)
- Transient neonatal hyperinsulinism
- Nissen fundoplication induced hypoglycemia
- SCHAD
- INS RECEPT
- MCT1
- HNF4 alpha
- HNF1 alpha
- Hexokinase
- UCP1
- Primary IGF1 deficiency
- Growth hormone deficiency
- Idiopathic short stature
- Turner's syndrome
- Babies born small for gestational age (SGA)
- Chronic renal insufficiency
- Silver Russell syndrome
- Prader Willi syndrome
- Abnormal blood fats – familial hypercholesterolemia and hypertriglyceridemia
- Insulin resistance
- Type 2 diabetes
- Metabolic syndrome X
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