Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Ectopic Cushing’s syndrome caused by ectopic ACTH secretion are under-diagnosed.Case report: A 50 years old male patient is hospitalized for severe hypokalaemia and diabetes. Last 6 months he had a history of chest pain, prolonged cough, general weakness, difficulties climbing stairs, confusion, loss of consciousness. Previously, he was hospitalized in psychiatric hospital for psychotic alterations, in cardiology for high blood pressur...

McCune–Albright syndrome (MAS) is characterized by fibrous dysplasia (FD), cutaneous cafe-au-lait pigmentation and autonomous hyper-secretory endocrinopathies. Association of acromegaly with MAS is very rare. We present a case of a 35-year-old men with MAS, diagnosed with poly-ostotic fibrous dysplasia at the age of 12, no history of premature puberty, with GH secreting cystic macroadenoma 40×35×45 mm big and clinical picture of acromegaly, hypopituitarism and b...

Adenomatoid tumors are relatively uncommon neoplasms of mesothelial origin, usually occuring in the male and female genital tracts. Rare extragenital adenomatoid tumor has been identified in adrenal gland. The differential diagnosis includes metastatic carcinoma and adrenocortical carcinoma.We present a case of 30 years old woman with incidentally radiological (ultrasound) finding of unilateral tumor in the right adrenal gland. CT and MRI were of great v...

Subclinical hyperthyroidism (ScHyper) is a condition with suppressed TSH, and normal free T3 and free T4 hormones, affecting 10% of the population. There are two subgroups of patients, the first group with TSH lower than 0.1 U/l, and the second group with mildly suppressed TSH between 0.1 and the lower assay reference limit. The patients from the first group should be treated, but there is no evidence for therapy for the second group of patients.We prese...

Objective: Our goal was to investigate the effects of glucose levels from 75-g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) on large for gestational age (LGA) newborns in women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM).Material and methods: A prospective study was undertaken in Outpatient Department of Clinics for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders. One hundred and eighteen pregnant women were prospectively screened for GDM between 24 and 28 weeks of p...

Introduction: Glucagonoma is a rare condition with annual incidence 1 in 20 million, associated with diabetes mellitus, dermatitis, deep vein trombosis and depression.Case report: A 55-year-old woman patient was hospitalized at our department because of intense discomfort of the skin lesions that were pruritic and painful, erythematous area of skin with blisters that breach after a few days, red tongue, cracks on the mouth corners. She had a constant wei...