Endocrinology is a medical specialty that is constantly evolving, with the emergence of Interventional Thyroidology at the forefront of the specialty’s technological advancement internationally. At the First Department of Endocrinology, individualized care is provided using the latest medical evidence and technologies.
The Director of the Department, Konstantinos Segkos, MD, ECNU, completed his full specialist training and subsequently worked for many years at Endocrinology, Thyroid and Parathyroid Centers in the United States of America. He is the founder of the Utah Thyroid Center in the USA and holds the American Endocrine Certification in Neck Ultrasound (ECNU from AACE/AIUM). He is among the first physicians to have performed Radiofrequency Ablation of the Thyroid in the United States, helping many patients with benign symptomatic nodules avoid surgery. In Greece, he offers this procedure to his patients at Metropolitan General Hospital.
Thyroid Disorders
- Thyroid nodules
- Evaluation (ultrasound, FNA, blood tests, etc.)
- Treatment
- Simple monitoring
- Radiofrequency thermal ablation, strictly where indicated
- Collaboration with specialized surgeons for thyroidectomy, strictly where indicated
- Thyroid cancer
- Papillary thyroid carcinoma
- Follicular thyroid carcinoma
- Invasive encapsulated follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma
- Poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma
- High-grade thyroid carcinoma
- Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma
- Medullary thyroid carcinoma
- Preoperative evaluation
- Postoperative monitoring and treatment (e.g. radioactive iodine, etc.), based on the latest guidelines
- Hypothyroidism
- Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
- TSH resistance and other rare causes of hypothyroidism
- Postoperative hypothyroidism
- Congenital hypothyroidism
- Hypothyroidism during pregnancy
- Hyperthyroidism
- Graves’ disease
- Toxic adenoma / Toxic multinodular goiter
- Transient thyroiditis (painless thyroiditis, postpartum thyroiditis, subacute thyroiditis – de Quervain’s thyroiditis, acute thyroiditis, Riedel’s thyroiditis, etc.)
- Central hyperthyroidism
- Thyroid hormone resistance
- Hyperthyroidism during pregnancy
Parathyroid Disorders
- Primary hyperparathyroidism
- Parathyroid adenoma
- Parathyroid hyperplasia
- Parathyroid carcinoma
- MEN1, MEN2A
- Secondary hyperparathyroidism
- Tertiary hyperparathyroidism
- Normocalcemic hyperparathyroidism
- Familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia
- Hypoparathyroidism
- Postoperative
- Autoimmune
- Congenital
- Pseudohypoparathyroidism
- Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism
Pituitary Disorders
- Pituitary adenoma
- Non-functioning adenomas
- Prolactinomas
- Acromegaly or gigantism
- Cushing’s disease
- Thyrotroph adenoma
- Gonadotroph adenoma
- Pituitary insufficiency (partial or complete)
- Secondary adrenal insufficiency
- Central hypothyroidism
- Growth hormone deficiency
- Gonadotropin deficiency (hypogonadism, secondary amenorrhea)
- Diabetes insipidus
- Sheehan syndrome
- Pituitary apoplexy
- Pituitary insufficiency following radiation therapy
- Postoperative pituitary insufficiency
- Craniopharyngioma
- Rathke’s cleft cyst
- Pars intermedia cyst
- Empty sella syndrome
- Nelson syndrome
- Hypophysitis
- Autoimmune
- Infectious
- Secondary to immunotherapy
- Infiltrative / Granulomatous diseases
- Sarcoidosis
- Langerhans cell histiocytosis
- Hemochromatosis
- Tuberculosis
Adrenal Disorders
- Adrenal adenoma
- Adrenal hyperplasia
- Adrenal carcinoma
- Adrenal metastases
- Cushing syndrome
- Primary hyperaldosteronism
- Pheochromocytoma
- Androgen-secreting tumors
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasias
- Adrenal insufficiency
- Autoimmune (Addison’s disease)
- Infectious (e.g. tuberculosis, Waterhouse–Friderichsen syndrome)
- Postoperative
- Other causes
- Rare genetic syndromes
Osteoporosis
Obesity