Department of Endocrinology & Diabetes

Doctors who specialize in diseases that affect your hormones are called Endocrinologists. These hormones may affect one organ or tissue or the entire body. There are many disorders that can result when too few hormones are secreted (hyposecretion) or too many are secreted (hypersecretion).

The Endocrine glands include:

• Thyroid
• Parathyroid
• Hypothalamus
• Pituitary
• Adrenal
• Islets of Langerhans in the pancreas
• Gonads (testes and ovaries)

Disorders that may result when a particular gland does not produce the right amount of hormones include the following.

• Pancreas: diabetes, hypoglycemia
• Thyroid: hypothyroidism, myxedema, goiter, thyrotoxicosis
• Parathyroid: high calcium, tetany, renal calculi, excessive loss of minerals from bone, hypercalcemia
• Adrenal: Addison’s disease, pheochromocytoma
• Pituitary: non-functioning tumor, diabetes insipidus, acromegaly, gigantism, Cushing’s syndrome, dwarfism
• Testes and ovaries: lack of sex development, hypogonadism

Main Services:

Evaluation and management of following endocrine conditions are being offered by the department of:

• Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
• Diabetes and its complications
• Hirsutism (increased facial hair growth in females)
• Hypertension (particularly hypertension in young)
• Osteoporosis/ Calcium and Vitamin D disorders
• Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)
• Obesity and Metabolic syndrome
• Sexual Disorders and Infertility
• Hypothyroidism/Hyperthyroidism/Goiter
• Short stature
• Hypoglycemia