Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) is a bunch of metabolic disturbances related to insulin resistance and is considered a global public health problem. The screening and management of MetS is particularly challenging in psychiatric practice.Objectives: We aim to identify clinical and therapeutic factors associated with MetS in a Tunisian psychiatric population.Methods: We conducted a descriptive and analytical cross-sectional ...

Introduction: Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) represents a cluster of vascular risk factors related to insulin resistance such as abdominal obesity, hypertension, and glucose and lipid dysregulations. Multiple studies suggest an increasing metabolic risk in psychiatric patients. ObjectivesWe aim to assess epidemiological and clinical features of MetS in a Mediterranean psychiatric population. MethodsWe conducted a descriptive cross-sectional study involving 126 patients attending th...

Introduction: Mortality among patients with schizophrenia and psychotic disorders(SAPD) is two to threefold higher than in the general population and is widely attributed to cardiovascular and metabolic morbidity.Objectives: We aim to highlight the metabolic profile of Mediterranean patients diagnosed with SAPD.Methods: We conducted a descriptive and analytical cross-sectional study involving 55 patients who attended the psychiatry...

Introduction: Monogenic diabetes is a rare type of diabetes that should be evoked in the presence of associated features. Here we report a female patient with complete phenotype of MODY5 while discussing its possible complications.Case report: A.B was 35-year-old patient with a rich family history of diabetes and renal cysts. Sha had a personal medical history of Diabetes since the age of 23 years, on basal bolus insulin regimen, recurrent episodes of ur...

Objective: To determine the prevalence and analyze the predictive value of erectile dysfunction (ED) in the occurrence of fictional disorders (MD) in men with diabetes mellitus (DM).Patients and Methods: Cross-sectional study of 90 men presenting with DM. A comparative analysis was performed between two subgroups: G1 (n=75) with MD vs G2 (n=15) without MD.Results: G1 patients were older than G2 (59.7±10.3 vs 58...

Introduction: Adrenocortical carcinoma is a very rare tumor with a heterogenous prognosis.Case report: Patient R.B is a 58-year-old female patient with no particular familial history. She had a personal history of hypertension, discovered 6 months ago well controlled with beta blockers and amlodipine. Two weeks before her admission to the hospital, she reported having constantly worsening abdominal pain followed by frequent vomiting few days later. The p...

Introduction: Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) in its classical form is an early-onset and challenging-to-treat condition with long-term evolution associated with significant morbidity, typically involving metabolism, bone, and gonadal aspects. Through this specific case study, we illustrate one of the rare complications of CAH in adulthood.Case Report: A 24-year-old patient, born of consanguineous parents, has been monitored since birth for classica...

Introduction: Graves’ disease is a frequent endocrine disorder, often treated as first-line therapy with antithyroid drugs. Herin, we report two female patients with Methimazole allergy while detailing its management.Case Reports: TWO female patients aged respectively 27 and 28 years old were diagnosed with Graves’ disease (GD), diagnosed given the association of peripheral hyperthyroidism and elevated anti TSH receptor antibodies. The first de...

Introduction: Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) is one of the most frequent endocrine diseases worldwide that is typically irreversible. Herein we report the case of a woman who had spontaneous remission of hypothyroidism while discussing the potential mechanisms underlying this unusual evolution.Case report: T.C. is a 44-year-old woman with no familial history of thyroid diseases nor auto-immune conditions. She has no particular personal medical history...

Amiodarone is considered by many the most potent antiarrhythmic drug. The other side of the coin is that it’s associated with many side effects including disturbances in the thyroid function, which can be seen in 14 to 18 % of the cases (1). This case is about a 56-year-old male patient with a history of mitral valve disease who was on Amiodarone for 3 years. His personal history was notable with Epilepsy of unknow etiology for which he was on sodium valproate. During fol...