Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Charcot foot is a rare and particular form of diabetic foot that presents a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. It can lead to gross structural deformities of the foot and ankle, and subsequent skin ulceration and lower limb amputation from soft tissue or bony infection. Case report: We report the case of Mr B.D, aged 55, type 2 diabetic for 29 years, poorly controlled despite intensified insulin treatment, at the stage of micro and macro...

Background and aims: Charcot neuroarthropathy (CN) is a devastating and destructive disease of the bone structure and joints. Despite the fact that its description was published almost 130 years ago, its pathophysiology, risk factors, diagnosis, and treatment remain areas that need to be described. This study aims to describe patient characteristics and comorbidities as well as the clinical and morphological characteristics of these neuroarthropathies.Ma...

Introduction: The diabetic foot is a public health problem. It can cause serious complications leading to amputation.Aim: To determine the clinical, biological, therapeutic and evolutionary characteristics of the diabetic foot.Patients and Methods: Prospective descriptive study conducted at the HCA Diabetology Department, over a period of 36 months. Inclusion of all hospitalized or followed up patients in consultation for a diabeti...

Introduction: The improvement of the survival of diabetics is accompanied by the emergence of bone fragility which can directly affect, at various levels, the various components of the bone tissue leading to quantitative and qualitative anomalies. The effects of type 2 diabetes on bone are complex because they are associated with the sometimes associated disorders of nutrition, weight and age. Densitometric studies in this context are quite contradictory. We proposed to study ...

Introduction: Pheochromocytomas are secreting tumors, producing catecholamines (dopamine, noradrenaline and adrenaline), responsible for arterial hypertension; Pheochromocytoma in the diabetic may be responsible for an unbalanced glycemic and this considerably modifies the management. We present the case of a patient for whom the diagnosis of pheochromocytoma was posed before a glycemic imbalance.Clinical case: A 70-year-old patient is hospitalized for u...

Introduction: Dumping syndrome, also known as rapid gastric emptying, is a relatively rare disorder. It is conventionally due to the brutal flooding of the small bowel by a hyperosmolar food bolus and to the release of various digestive hormones whose real responsibility in the syndrome remains poorly known. It is usually a complication of the gastrectomy (10 to 40% of the cases). Hypoglycemia after surgery for digestive cancer is sometimes severe, but rare, and revealed by th...

Tuberculosis of the thyroid gland occurs rarely, and should be considered in the diagnosis of nodular lesion of the thyroid gland. We report the case of a 44-year-old woman admitted for therapeutic management of a suspected goiter appeared at 2 months of hospitalisation and quickly increasing in volume in a few days, she had a goiter clinically type 2, firm, homogeneous, without palpable nodules in it, hardly moving with swallowing movements with slight dysphagia without signs...

Graves’ disease and type 1 DM (T1DM) both have an autoimmune aetiology. Also, Thyrotoxicosis (TT) has previously been described as a possible precipitant of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) in patients with T1DM. Due to the similarities in their clinical presentation, DKA can mask the diagnosis of TT and vice versa. We report two cases of the simultenous presentation of thyrotoxicosis and diabetic keto-acidosis in two previously healthy men. Case 1: A 27-year-old man with...