Internal Medicine & Diabetology

Endocrinology/Diabetology

Endocrinology Fortis Hospitals center for Diabetes aims to provide state-of-the-art patient care incorporating recent therapeutic advances in diabetes prevention & management.

Facilities

Specialized clinics are regularly held at the Diabetes and Metabolic diseases Unit to address conditions such as:-

• Diabetes
• Childhood Diabetes
• Adult & Childhood Obesity
• Metabolic Syndrome
• Lipid Disorders
• Thyroid Disorders

Advance Body Composition Analysis

• Glucose Assessment & Control.
• Assessment of Complications and Associated Conditions.
• Nephropathy
• Neuropathy
• Peripheral Vascular
• Diabetic Foot
• Advanced 3-D Static Digital Foot Pressure Assessment
• Retinopathy- Advanced Assessment including Angiography
• Heart Disease: Stress Cardiac Tests; ECHO; Non-Invasive Cardiac CT Angiography etc.
• Sleep Disorder Breathing- Polysomnography
• Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease- Ultrasound, MRI
• Advanced Laboratory Assessment
• Patient Education & Counseling Services.

Endocrine Diseases (or Endocrinological Diseases):-

• Adrenal disorders:-
  • Adrenal insufficiency
    • Addison's disease
    • Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (adrenogenital syndrome)
    • Mineralocorticoid deficiency
  • Conn's syndrome
  • Cushing's syndrome
  • Pheochromocytoma
  • Adrenocortical carcinoma
• Glucose homeostasis disorders:-
  • Diabetes mellitus
  • Hypoglycemia
    • Idiopathic hypoglycemia
    • Insulinoma
• Metabolic bone disease:-
  • Osteoporosis
  • Osteitis deformans (Paget's disease of bone)
  • Rickets and osteomalacia
• Pituitary gland disorders:-
  • Diabetes insipidus
  • Hypopituitarism (or Panhypopituitarism)
  • Pituitary tumors
    • Pituitary adenomas
    • Prolactinoma (or Hyperprolactinemia)
    • Acromegaly, gigantism
    • Cushing's disease
• Parathyroid gland disorders:-
  • Primary hyperparathyroidism
  • Secondary hyperparathyroidism
  • Tertiary hyperparathyroidism
  • Hypoparathyroidism
    • Pseudohypoparathyroidism
• Sex hormone disorders:-
  • Disorders of sex development or intersex disorders
    • Hermaphroditism
    • Gonadal dysgenesis
    • Androgen insensitivity syndromes
  • Hypogonadism
    • Gonadotropin deficiency
    • Kallmann syndrome
    • Klinefelter syndrome
    • Ovarian failure
    • Testicular failure
    • Turner syndrome
  • Disorders of Gender
    • Gender identity disorder
  • Disorders of Puberty
    • Delayed puberty
    • Precocious puberty
  • Menstrual function or fertility disorders
    • Amenorrhea
    • Polycystic ovary syndrome
• Thyroid disorders:-
  • Hyperthyroidism and Graves-Basedow disease
  • Hypothyroidism
  • Thyroiditis
  • Thyroid cancer
• Tumours of the endocrine glands not mentioned elsewhere:-
  • Multiple endocrine neoplasia
    • MEN type 1
    • MEN type 2a
    • MEN type 2b
  • See also separate organs
• Autoimmune polyendocrine syndromes
• Incidentaloma - an unexpected finding on diagnostic imaging, often of endocrine glands