Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: As the incidence of pediatric obesity is gaining pandemic levels, with children and teenagers developing obesity complications similar to the adult population, a rapid evaluation and treatment is necessary. We present such a case.Case reportA 12-year-old male with a medical history of binge eating, treated by Topiramate, since the age of 11 and 3rd degree obesity, complicated with JNC stage II hypertension, NASH and dyslipidemia was referred to our clinic for nut...

Introduction: We report a case of adrenal tumor recurrence after bilateral adenomectomy for Cushing’s syndrome.Case report: A 44-year-old female diagnosed in June 2014 with Cushing’s syndrome caused by bilateral adrenocortical tumors, which were identified by an abdominal CT (right tumor-2.6/ 2/1.8 cm, left tumor-3/2/2 cm). At presentation, the patient had typical signs and symptoms of hypercortisolism and complications such as: arterial hypert...

Introduction: We report a case of a pituitary insufficiency apparently resistant to treatment.Case report: A 74 year old patient was admitted through the ER in our department for a recently discovered pituitary macroadenoma. His general condition was poor in spite of the initiation of corticotherapy. Evaluation: Smoker, with no significant medical history, the BP: 100/60 mmHg, no orthostatic hypotension, disoriented, confused, with moderately altered gen...

Introduction: Therapeutic management of clinical nonsecreting pituitary adenomas with ophthalmological manifestations is certainly limited to surgery unless IHC from previous intervention could bring up new data.Case report: A 16-year-old patient was admitted in February 2014 in our Endocrinology Department for short stature (−3.5 S.D.), in the context of an iatrogenic pituitary insufficiency. 7 months before, he had been diagnosed w...