Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Immunologic background often present different association of two or more autoimmune diseases. However the coexistence of Basedow disease (BD) – the prototype of these disorders - with pernicious anemia (PA), sometimes as a component of pancytopenia, is rarely described. Between 50 patients operated on immunologic hyperthyroidism in a 20 years period only one case related this uncommon combination.Case report: AB, a 46-year-old woman w...

Background: The aim of this report is to describe a fortuitely discovered association between parathyromatosis and occult sclerosing papillary carcinoma of the thyroid.Case description: A 56-year-old woman presented with pyelic relapsed stone, bone pains and iPTH=348 ng but normal calcemia as manifestations of recurrent primary hyperparathyroidism after a right inferior parathyroid adenoma resection done elsewere 6 years ago Sonography showed a 5 mm hypo...

Background: The presence of striking cardiovascular manifestations was noted in the first descriptions of hyperthyroidism owing to Parry (1825) and Basedow (1840) in the famous Merseburger triad. Hyperthyroidism may either cause cardiac complication in individuals with a normal myocardium (genuine form of disorder) or complicate pre-existing cardiac troubles.Patients and methods: An homogenous series of 49 cardiothyreosis, 11 males and 38 females, aged 1...

Introduction: The significant increase in the average lifespan of the general population lead to a proportional enhancement in the prevalence of benign and malignant thyroid conditions and equally the number of surgeries for this pathology.Patients and method: In a personal series of 464 thyroid disorders undergoing surgery over two decades we recorded 51 patients (21.5%) aged over 65 years of which 11 (2.4%) having over 75 years. Demographic, clinical a...

Background: Chronic inflammatory processes of the thyroid represents an important proportion of the gland’s pathology but the majority of them must be treated by nonsurgical methods, thyroidectomy remaining circumstantially indicated.Patients and methods: In 14 cases (3%) from 464 operations for different thyroid lesions lesions we have encountered authentic inflammatory processes in nine cases of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (two associated with pa...

Background: The optimal surgical technique in patients with refractory renal hyperparathyroidism (RHP) on hemodialysis for end stage renal disease is still a point of debates.The high percentage of recurrences after standard surgical procedures, i.e. subtotal parathyroidectomy (SPtx) and total parathyroidectomy with autotransplantation (TPtx+At) reactualised the practice of total parathyroidectomy (TPtx).Patients and methods: Forty...