Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Arginine vasopressin (AVP) disorder, formerly known as diabetes insipidus (DI), is a disease that results in either decreased release and/or secretion of antidiuretic hormone (AVP deficiency or central DI) or a reduced response to it (AVP resistance or nephrogenic DI). Carcinoid tumors are rare malignant neuroendocrine epithelial tumor, 25% occurring in the lungs, making them the second most common site. Atypical carcinoids and the development of metastases are a...

We present the case of a 36-year-old female with a focal neonatal hyperinsulinism diagnosed at birth in a context of hypoglycemia that was resistant to Diazoxide treatment. A subtotal pancreatectomy was performed and histology showed a focal hyperinsulinism. The mutation of ABCC8 was not searched at this point. The patient developed an insulin dependent diabetes at the age of 9 and required an insulin pump. In 2017 the patient was planning a pregnancy so she consulted a geneti...