Endocrine Abstracts

Studies showed an increase of cardiovascular risk (CVR) and reduction of the life expectancy observed in the anterior pituitary insufficiency (API) subjects. The morbimortality would be related to GH deficiency not substituted.Aim: To seek the frequency of the hypertension and analyse the predictive factors in subjects with API.A retrospective study relating 55 (47 women, eight men) subjects with API: interrupted pituitarystalk n:6...

IGF1 represent an important key player in several physiologic process, so it can be implicated in different pathologies among delays of growth. A comparative study was realized comparing a group of healthy Algerian children of normal size (n: 266) and a group presenting a GH deficiency (GHD n: 107)to a group of healthy westerners children of normal size(Serie of ROSENFIELD).The results are as follows: Before the age of 04 years, there is a ...

The recourse to the imagery by magnetic resonance brings to discover pathological images requiring an adapted exploration and therapeutic. The thickening of the pituitary stem can raise diagnostic difficulties. We report the case of 06 patients: 02 men and 04 women, average age is 31 years (04 years 1/2 at 48 years).The consultation is justified by an insipid diabetes in 05 cases, an amenorrhea - galactorrhea in a case. The hormonal assessment revealed a...

Diet and physical activity are éssensiels in support of diabetes mellitus (DM) as well as medical treatment.Aim: Evaluate the results of diet and physical activity on anthropometric and metabolic parameters of T2DM patients untreated population and methodology. 30 newly diagnosed T2DM patients (20W and 10 M; mean age 56.23±0.96 years were placed under hygienodietetic rules. Each patient underwent a clinical examination specifying TT, BMI, and m...

Introduction: Abnormalities of midline (AML) can be isolated or to be associated to secretory pituitary abnormalities that reflect a developmental defect of the hypothalamic pituitary (HP) region.Aim: Find AML in GH deficiency (GHD) and see their relationship with the appearance of the HP region and the severity of hypopituitarism (I P).Population and methodology: 160 children (141 ♂, ♀ 19) (IGH) underwent a clinical ex...

Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS) is a rare syndrome. It was first reported by Silver, Russel and al, who described children with low birth weight, postnatal statural delay, peculiar facies and asymmetry of the body. We report the case of two sibling children born to non-consanguineous parents, admitted to our level for the exploration of severe staturo-weight retardation in relation to marked intrauterine growth retardation. The first child is a 04-year-old girl, born at term. It...

Introduction: Bilateral adrenal tumours are rare and account for 10–15% of adrenal lesions. They can be infectious, inflammatory, tumour, hémmoragiques, and genetic. The clinical and imaging used to guide diagnosis.Aim: Assess clinical, etiologic, and therapeutic characteristics of bilateral adrenal masses.Population and methodology: This is a retrospective study of the records of patients with bilateral adrenal masses co...

Introduction: Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) are genetic diseases with a deficit of one of the enzymes of steroidogenesis (21 hydroxylase OH, 90%). The consequences of the adrenal hyperandrogenism that results are observed when the treatment is not undertaken precociously.Aim: To study the impact of CAH and or treatment by glucocorticoids on the final size and gonadal function in girls.Materials and methods: 25 patients with ...

Introduction: Intra-testicular adrenal inclusions (ISIT) are benign tumors made of ectopic adrenal cortex tissue hyper stimulated by ACTH in excess. All pathologies causing a rise ACTH levels may be associated with adrenal inclusions. They are found mainly in patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) of untreated or poorly treated.Objective: Search the frequency of ISIT in CAH and clarify clinical and progressive characteristics.<p class="ab...

Introduction: Malignant phaeochromocytomas are rare tumours, developed at the medulla and paraganglia. Their diagnosis is established by the presence of metastases of organs devoid of chromaffin tissue or by the appearance of neoplastic recurrence. They are characterized by a morbidity and mortality due to the effects of uncontrolled and important hypersecretion cathécolaminergique and resistance to conventional cancer treatments.Aim: Report the obs...