Endocrinology

Overview

Mayo Clinic has one of the largest group of endocrinologists in the world, with more than 50 endocrinologists who evaluate and treat patients for endocrine and metabolic disorders. The body's endocrine system includes the pancreas, the thyroid, parathyroid, pineal, hypothalamus, adrenal and pituitary glands, and the ovaries and testes. It also involves many other organs which respond to, modify, or metabolize hormones.

Mayo endocrinologists are careful to evaluate the relationship between nutrition and human disease in an attempt to improve and maintain a patient's health. State-of-the-art diagnosis and therapy options available for endocrinology patients at Mayo include:

• Adrenal venous sampling
• Bariatric surgery
• Clinical dietetics
• Diabetes nurse educator program
• Endoscopic trans-nasal pituitary surgery
• Endocrine pathology
• Endocrine general surgery
• Gamma-knife radiosurgery
• Grave's ophthalmology
• High-resolution imaging (MRI, CT)
• Home feeding program
• Hospital nutrition consulting services
• Inferior petrosal sinus sampling
• Infertility/andrology services
• Intensive treatment for lipid disorders
• Intensive insulin therapy for diabetics
• Minimally invasive adrenal surgery
• Minimally invasive parathyroid surgery
• Multiple endocrine neoplasia
• Octreotide scanning and therapy
• Osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease
• Pituitary-gonad-adrenal treatment
• Thyroid cancer
• Thyroid disorders
• Treatment for pregnancy-induced diabetes
• Transplant services
• Ulcer and wound care

There are five Mayo endocrinologists in Florida, 43 in Minnesota and five in Arizona. They work closely with Mayo specialists in ophthalmology, otolaryngology, radiation oncology, surgery, obstetrics, transplantation and other specialties to provide a multidisciplinary approach to patients' problems.

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, is ranked No. 1 in Diabetes & Endocrine Disorders in the U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals rankings. Mayo Clinic also ranks among the Best Children's Hospitals in Diabetes & Endocrine Disorders.