Endocrine Abstracts

A 44-year-old women without personal or familial pathological history, presented 8 months before her admission a paroxystic symptomatology made of palpitations, headache and profus sweat associated with major abdominal pain, evolving in a context of alteration of the general state. Clinical examination objectified high blood pressure and tachycardia. Laboratory testing confirmed the diagnosis of pheochromocytoma. A computed tomography of the abdomen revealed a bilateral adrena...

Introduction: Thyroid disorders are quite common during pregnancy complicated by diabetes mellitus.Objective: The aim of our study was to detect thyroid disorders in a group of diabetic pregnant women.Patients and methods: Rétrospective study involving 243 pregnant women with diabetes followed in consultation or hospitalized in Endocrinology and Diabetology department of Ibn Rochd University Hospital of Casablanca, over a peri...

Introduction: Pregnancy in women with diabetes is considered high risk because of potentially serious maternal and fetal complications that can put in to risk the maternal and fetal prognosis.Objective: Describe and analyze risks associated with diabetic pregnancies and compare maternal fetal prognosis of pregnancies with pregestational diabetes (T1D and T2D) with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM).Patients and methods: It was a d...

Introduction: Cushing’s syndrome usually causes hypogonadism. Occurrence of pregnancy in this context is rare, and is associated with significant morbidity and perinatal mortality. We report two cases of pregnancies in two patients with Cushing’s disease.Case 1: Our first Patient was 37-year-old who presented during the second trimester of pregnancy a Cushing syndrome. The positive diagnosis was made regadless clinical signs and a hight free ur...

Introduction: Adrenal myelolipoma is a rare, benign, non-secreting tumor, often found incidentally or in the context of abdominal pain. We report the cases of two patients with adrenal myelolipoma hospitalized at the endocrinology department of diabetology and metabolic diseases of Ibn Rochd University Hospital in Casablanca.Case 1: This is a 30-year-old patient, hospitalized for adrenal mass, revealed by right lower back pain, radiating to the right hyp...

Introduction: Thyroid dermopathy is a non-frequent manifestation of autoimmune thyroiditis. It complicates a small percentage of patients and is usually associated with ophtalmopathy and acropachy.Observation: A 46-year-old man presented to our department of endocrinology at the university hospital of Casablanca with 3 years history of Graves’ disease, developed gradual onset of exophthalmos and bilateral leg oedema starting from his pretibial areas...