Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Patients undergoing extensive pancreatic resection for benign pancreatic disease are subject to significant metabolic complications and may develop insulin-dependent diabetes that is difficult to balance due to the lack of a counter-regulatory mechanism. Diabetes appears classically after removal of more than 80% of the pancreas, especially with a risk of severe and prolonged hypoglycaemia. We illustrate the problem with the following clinical case.<p class="...

Introduction: The question of the relationship between vitamin D and cardiovascular disease is still open to debate. Recent, exciting and preliminary evidence suggests that vitamin D may play a role in the occurrence of cardiovascular events.Materials and methods: Patients of both sexes, involving 290 patients recruited between September and March, aged between 40 and 80 years, with type 2 diabetes mellitus after informed consent. We excluded patients wi...

Introduction: The improvement of the survival of diabetics is accompanied by the emergence of bone fragility which can directly affect, at various levels, the various components of the bone tissue leading to quantitative and qualitative anomalies. The effects of type 2 diabetes on bone are complex because they are associated with the sometimes associated disorders of nutrition, weight and age. Densitometric studies in this context are quite contradictory. We proposed to study ...

Introduction: Pheochromocytomas are secreting tumors, producing catecholamines (dopamine, noradrenaline and adrenaline), responsible for arterial hypertension; Pheochromocytoma in the diabetic may be responsible for an unbalanced glycemic and this considerably modifies the management. We present the case of a patient for whom the diagnosis of pheochromocytoma was posed before a glycemic imbalance.Clinical case: A 70-year-old patient is hospitalized for u...

Introduction: Dumping syndrome, also known as rapid gastric emptying, is a relatively rare disorder. It is conventionally due to the brutal flooding of the small bowel by a hyperosmolar food bolus and to the release of various digestive hormones whose real responsibility in the syndrome remains poorly known. It is usually a complication of the gastrectomy (10 to 40% of the cases). Hypoglycemia after surgery for digestive cancer is sometimes severe, but rare, and revealed by th...