Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Hyperparathyroidism is a frequent endocrinopathy, often diagnosed in the stage of asymptomatic hypercalcemia. The revelation by a bone or renal complication has become increasingly rare dominated by osteoporosis and brown tumors giving a blown aspect of the cortices exposing to pathological fractures. We report 2 cases of primary hyperparathyroidism revealed by a brown tumor and pathological fracture.Observation 1: This is a 52 year old fem...

Introduction: Hypothyroidism-related anasarca is due to the capillary permeability disorders associated with hypothyroidism. It is a rare mode of revelation especially when associated with ascites, which is an exceptional localization. We report the case of a deep hypothyroidism revealed by an ascites of great abundance. Observation: Our patient is 73 years old with a history of 2 daughters followed for Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. He consults for abdom...

Introduction: The occurrence of vesicular carcinoma in Graves’ disease is exceptional. It is most often a papillary carcinoma rarely vesicular. We report the case of a vesicular carcinoma discovered at the anatomopathological study of a total thyroidectomy in a patient followed for Graves’ disease.Observation: This is a 61-year-old female patient with type 2 diabetes, on SGLT2 inhibitor. There isn’t any family history of thyroid cancer or ...

Introduction: Primary aldosteronism (PHA), also known as primary hyperaldosteronism or Conn’s syndrome, refers to the excess production of the hormone aldosterone from the adrenal glands.Study objectives: To show clinical, biochemical, and morphological data of 09 patients with primary hyperaldosteronism as well as the therapeutic choice for each patientMehtods: it is aretrospective and descriptive study of 09 cases with prim...

Introduction: Bariatric surgery is the treatment which has shown the most important effectiveness in terms of weight reduction, improvement of co morbidities, quality of life and mortality on the long term, in the case of massive obesity and obesity associated with co–morbidities. The purposes of our study: clarify the place of bariatric surgery in the treatment of obesity, define the criteria of selections of patients.Material and Methods: It&#821...

Introduction: Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease triggered by gluten frequently associated with other autoimmune diseases, among which is type 1 diabetes first.Objectives: The objectives of our study are:– To determine the serological prevalence of celiac disease (CD) in patients with type 1 diabetes (DT1)– Compare the clinical and biological characteristics of seropositive and seronegative p...

Used for the first time in 1941 in the United States by Hertz and Roberts for the treatment of hyperthyroidism in Grave’s Disease, radioactive active therapy (RAI) has been able to gain its place within the already existing therapeutic arsenal by being efficient, easy to use and minimally invasive. Our work is a retrospective study of 46 patients collected at the Department of Endocrinology, over a period of 7 years and half from January 1, 2011 to June 30, 2018. The pur...