Endocrine Abstracts

Background-Aim: Urolithiasis is a frequent and recurrent pathology. Diabetes has a very important role in the formation of kidney stones. The objective of our study was to study the influence of age on the morpho-constitutional characteristics of urolithiasis in diabetic patients in southern Tunisia.Methods: This is a mono-centric retrospective and descriptive study of urinary lithiasis cases in diabetic patients. The lithiasis were identified by the mor...

Introduction: The quality of assay methods for HbA1c assessment has importantly improved last decades, however analytical interferences due to variants of hemoglobin remain of matter vigilance. Immunological interferences, although no longer described, may also occur.Observation: A 84-years-old woman without significant medical history was explored for polyneuropathy. Additional investigation as HbA1c was requested. As no value of HbA1c was obtained when...