Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Insulin resistance is one of the characteristic abnormalities of type 2 diabetes. Recently it has been recognized that type 1 diabetes may also present with insulin resistance of varying intensity. We report a case of insulin resistance in a patient with type 1 diabetes.Observation: The patient was 23 years old, with a history of type 1 diabetes since the age of 20, with positive antibodies against GAD (glutamate acid decarboxylase), reveal...

Introducing: Hypothyroidism is the most common endocrinopathy causing rhabdomyolysis. Muscle manifestations are common in hypothyroidism, but myopathy is most often limited to discrete clinical signs such as myalgias, stiffness or cramps accompanied by a simple elevation of muscle enzymes. On the other hand, rhabdomyolysis associated with hypothyroidism is a rare diagnosis to our knowledge. We report a case of severe rhabdomyolysis in the setting of profound Hashimoto’s h...

Introduction: Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is a group of rare inherited autosomal recessive disorders, CAH is caused by a mutation in the CYP21A2 gene that leads to a deficiency of 21-hydroxylase (CYP21), due to CYP21A2 gene mutations. Testicular adrenal rest tumors (T-ARTs) is a rare kind of benign tumor in the testis, which occurs mainly secondary to congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). We report a rare case of bilateral TART in a patient with CAH whose diagnosis wa...