Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Adrenal carcinomas are rare tumor. It has an estimated incidence of ~0.5–2 new cases per million people per year. Just 25% of adults with hormone-secreting adrenal carcinomas present overproduction of both glucocorticoids and androgens. Women develop adrenal carcinomas more often than men.Objectives: We report a case of 47-year-old female presented with weight gain, generalized weakness and hypertension for the last 6 months. Phy...

In pheochromocytoma, intense lypolitic activity may lead to altered lipid profile, which can reverse after tumour removal.Aim: In this study, we evaluated before and at 3 months after surgery for a cathecholamine secreting tumour, a group of 19 patients diagnosed with pheochromocytoma (17) or paraganglioma (2).Patients and methods: 13 women and 6 men, aged 53.68±12.75 years (36–75), presented with a clinical picture of pa...

A 50–year-old female with a 2 year-history of hypertension and diabetes was admitted to a county hospital, where treatment with clonidine and beta-blockers was started, without success. Abdominal CT showed a large left adrenal tumour, and her initial blood pressure (BP) was over 300/170 mmHg, which dropped to 80/30 mmHg. She was transferred for evaluation of a possible pheochromocytoma (PHEO). At admission her BP was 260/160 mmHg, heart rate (HR) 120 bpm, with anxiety, di...