Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Catecholamine secreting tumors are rare neoplasias. About 15% are paragangliomas. If untreated, they are almost invariably lethal. Surgery is the only curative therapy.Case report: A female caucasian patient aged 32 was evaluated in the endocrine department. She had a dramatic medical history: Fallot’s Tetralogy was diagnosed soon after birth but was not corrected. Only a Blalock-Taussing shunt was performed after three isquemic stroke...

Introduction: Fahr syndrome (FS) is a neuropsiquiatric condition due to progressive basal ganglia calcification. Although physiopathology is not completely understood, it may be secondary to infectious, metabolic and genetic diseases.Case report: A 65-year-old male Caucasian was referred to the outpatient endocrine department because of hypocalcaemia. No perioral paresthesia or tingling of the fingers and toes were noticed. He complained of longstanding ...

Introduction: Cushing syndrome (CS) result from inappropriate exposure to increased non regulated glucocorticoid levels. It remains challenging regarding diagnosis and management. Pituitary ACTH-secreting adenomas account for most of the cases if exogenous and paraneoplasic forms are excluded.Case report: A 45-year-old women was referred to the endocrine outpatient department because of obesity, muscular weakness, high blood pressure (HBP), diabetes ...

Introduction: Takotsubo cardiomyopathy or stress-induced cardiomyopathy (SICM) is a rare condition. Even more rare cases associated with glucocorticoid deficiency have been described.Case report: AAGM, a 74-year-old man was admitted to the inpatient Endocrine Department because of suspected panhypopituitarism. Six months before the diagnosis of SICM was established after an acute coronary syndrome episode with no lesions found in coronary angiography and...

Introduction: Von Hippel–Lindau disease (VHLD) is an autosomal dominant neoplastic syndrome characterized by the development of multiple cancers and cists, including pheochromocytoma and islet cell tumors. Screening is mandatory for family members of index cases.Case report: A 23-year-old male Caucasian was referred to Endocrine Department because of the recent genetic diagnosis of VHLD during familiar screening. The mutation c.482G>A(p.Arg161GI...

Obesity is growing fast worldwide. Although environmental factors play a major role, endocrine dysfunction may contribute to the weight gain. We report an invasive macroprolactinoma diagnosed in obesity setting. A 35-year-old male was referred to our endocrine outpatient department due to grade 2 obesity (IMC 38.4 Kg/m2). His weight was increasing since the beginning of his professional activity at the age of 20 due to a sedentary lifestyle. On physical examination he had an h...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess clinical outcomes of patients with toxic adenoma (TA) treated with Radioactive Iodine (RAIT) in a tertiary hospital over a period of 8 years. We also analysed the influence of age, gender, TSH at diagnosis and anti-thyroid drugs (ATD) previous to RAIT on the cure rate.Methods: Retrospective analysis of clinical records of all patients with TA submitted to RAIT between 2008 and 2015. The influence of demo...