Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: VIPomas are rare neuroendocrine tumors (NET), usually located in the pancreas that secrete vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) leading to high-volume watery diarrhea and complications such as hypokalemia, acidosis and dehydration. The management of VIPoma symptoms is often challenging when surgical resection of all the lesions is not feasible. Treatments are then based on somatostatin analogs (SSA) and may also include hepatic chemoembolization, systemic chem...

IntroductionKleine-Levin syndrome, also called recurrent hypersomnia is a rare sleep disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of severe hypersomnia associated with cognitive and behavioral disturbances such as confusion, derealization, apathy, compulsive eating and hypersexuality. Menstrual-related hypersomnia is classified as a subtype of syndrome Levin-Kleine consisting of recurrent hypersomnia that is temporally linked with menses.<p class="ab...