Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Bardet–Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a rare genetic ciliopathy with a prevalence of 1 in 160,000 in Europeans and 1 in 13,500 in some Arab populations The primary clinical features of BBS include retinal dystrophy, obesity, postaxial polydactyly, renal dysfunction, learning difficulties, and hypogonadism. Traditionally, BBS is clinically diagnosed when a patient shows 4 primary featuresCase report: 17 year old male, single, worker, presented...

Introduction: Hashimoto’s encephalopathy is a neurological disorder of unknown cause associated with thyroid autoimmunity. It is easy to misdiagnose or overlook and the symptoms frequently lead to mistaken neurological diagnoses. The disease may present in two types – a sudden vasculitic type or a progressive subacute type associated to cognitive dysfunction, confusion and memory loss.Case report: A 34 year old male presented to our emergency d...