Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is highly prevalent during hospitalization of patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D), and has been associated with increased risk of hypoglycaemia in Intensive Care Units. However, this association in non-critically ill patients is less clear and evidence on the impact of AKI’s severity and duration on hypoglycaemia is lacking.Objectives: To assess the impact of AKI and its severity and duration on the risk of hy...

Introduction: Bardet-Biedl Syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disease characterized by defects in multiple organ systems, presenting with diverse clinical manifestations such as retinopathy, polydactyly, obesity, intellectual developmental disorders, hypogonadism, renal dysfunction, among others.Clinical Case 1: 49-years-old female, case index, followed multidisciplinary since the age of three due to progressive night blindness from generalized retin...

Introduction: Neuroendocrine Tumors of the Colon are often aggressive and metastatic at diagnosis. The diagnosis is histologicaly obtained through immunohistochemical evaluation of biopsy specimens/metastases, with positive staining for Chromogranin A and Synaptophysin.Case Report: A 54-year-old independent patient with Type 1 Diabetes, leading to diabetic nephropathy, underwent a renal transplant followed by graft failure and is currently on hemodialysi...