Endocrine disease

Endocrine diseases are disorders of the endocrine system. The branch of medicine associated with endocrine disorders is known as endocrinology.

Types of endocrine disease
Broadly speaking, endocrine disorders may be subdivided into three groups:
 * 1) Endocrine gland hyposecretion (leading to hormone deficiency)
 * 2) Endocrine gland hypersecretion (leading to hormone excess)
 * 3) Tumours (benign or malignant) of endocrine glands

Endocrine disorders are often quite complex, involving a mixed picture of hyposecretion and hypersecretion because of the feedback mechanisms involved in the endocrine system. For example, most forms of hyperthyroidism are associated with an excess of thyroid hormone and a low level of thyroid stimulating hormone.

Adrenal disorders

 * Adrenal insufficiency
 * Addison's disease
 * Mineralocorticoid deficiency
 * Diabetes


 * Adrenal hormone excess
 * Conn's syndrome
 * Cushing's syndrome
 * GRA/Glucocorticoid remediable aldosteronism
 * Pheochromocytoma


 * Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (adrenogenital syndrome)
 * Adrenocortical carcinoma

Glucose homeostasis disorders

 * Diabetes mellitus
 * Type 1 Diabetes
 * Type 2 Diabetes
 * Gestational Diabetes
 * Mature Onset Diabetes of the Young


 * Hypoglycemia
 * Idiopathic hypoglycemia
 * Insulinoma


 * Glucagonoma


 * Thyroiditis
 * Hashimoto's thyroiditis


 * Thyroid cancer

Calcium homeostasis disorders and Metabolic bone disease

 * Parathyroid gland disorders
 * Primary hyperparathyroidism
 * Secondary hyperparathyroidism
 * Tertiary hyperparathyroidism
 * Hypoparathyroidism
 * Pseudohypoparathyroidism


 * Osteoporosis
 * Osteitis deformans (Paget's disease of bone)
 * Rickets and osteomalacia

Posterior pituitary

 * Diabetes insipidus

Anterior pituitary

 * Hypopituitarism (or Panhypopituitarism)


 * Pituitary tumors
 * Pituitary adenomas
 * Prolactinoma (or Hyperprolactinemia)
 * Acromegaly, gigantism
 * Cushing's disease

Sex hormone disorders

 * Disorders of sex development or intersex disorders
 * Hermaphroditism
 * Gonadal dysgenesis
 * Androgen insensitivity syndromes


 * Hypogonadism (Gonadotropin deficiency)
 * Inherited (genetic and chromosomal) disorders
 * Kallmann syndrome
 * Klinefelter syndrome
 * Turner syndrome
 * Acquired disorders
 * Ovarian failure (also known as Premature Menopause)
 * Testicular failure


 * Disorders of Gender
 * Gender identity disorder


 * Disorders of Puberty
 * Delayed puberty
 * Precocious puberty


 * Menstrual function or fertility disorders
 * Amenorrhea
 * Polycystic ovary syndrome

Tumours of the endocrine glands not mentioned elsewhere

 * Multiple endocrine neoplasia
 * MEN type 1
 * MEN type 2a
 * MEN type 2b


 * Carcinoid syndrome

See also separate organs

 * Autoimmune polyendocrine syndromes
 * Incidentaloma - an unexpected finding on diagnostic imaging, often of endocrine glands

History
Timme's syndrome is a historical term for pluriglandular disease ( disease involving a number of endocrine organs ) first described in 1919.