Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Hungry bone syndrome (HBS) is a rare condition that can appear after surgery for hyperparathyroidism, characterized by hypocalcemia, hypophosphatemia, low calciuria, especially in patients with severe primary hyperparathyroidism, bone lesions and elevated alkaline phosphatase. We present a case of severe persistent hypocalcemia after resection of a giant parathyroid adenoma in a patient with concurrent osteoblastic bone metastasis from prostate cancer.<p clas...

Introduction: Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A is an autosomal dominant disorder which is characterized by the occurrence of medullary thyroid carcinoma in association with pheochromocytoma and parathyroid tumors.Case report: We present the case of a 64-year-old woman, with familial history of thyroid carcinoma, renal lithiasis and personal history of right nephrectomy for renal lithiasis, who presented for the investigation of a left lateral cervica...

Introduction: Menopausal adrenal tumours may be elements of a complex panel of co-morbidities. Some of these are represented by the presence of a second pathology requiring surgery at the kidney level.Aim: We aim to introduce a series of two cases involving menopausal women who were referred for specific endocrine assays after they had a unilateral nephrectomy (UN).Method: This is a cases series observational study. The patients ga...

Introduction: Menopause correlates endocrine dysfunctions; whether an adrenal incidentaloma represents one of these it is difficult to establish since an age-dependent pattern of incidence has been described. Bone assays are necessary according to years since last menstruation but also if persistent hypercortisolemia is confirmed.Aim: This is a series of cases incidentally found with an adrenal tumor (AT) and osteopenia while evaluation of their menopaus...

IntroductionEndocrinopathies represent about 1–3% of secondary hypertension.The non-head-neck paragangliomas are rare neuroendocrine tumors that arise from the ganglia of the sympathetic nervous system. About 75% are intra-adbdominal, thus they are often mistaken for adrenal pheocromocitoma.They usually secret normetanephrine and chromogranin A, which are responsible of 0.2–0.6% of secondary hypertension.Objective<p c...