Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a very rare haematological disease, with difficult diagnosis for its very variable clinical picture. It is caused by monoclonal proliferation of cutaneous Langerhans cells. It affects most commonly the skin and bones, less often bone marrow, liver, pituitary and CNS.Case report: A 74-year-old female patient with progressive sclerosing cholangitis was referred to a transplant centre to consider liver tr...

Introduction: Osteoporosis is a well known long-term complication after simultaneous pancreas kidney transplantation (SPK). Alterations of bone microstructure contribute to the risk of fracture and trabecular bone score (TBS) measurement offers and additional tool to quantify bone microarchitecture impairment.Methods: There were 33 subjects with type 1 diabetes mellitus (23 men, 10 women, mean age 43.4 ± 9.8 years) participating in a prospective obs...

Introduction: Spacious sellar area predisposes to late diagnosis of nonfunctional pituitary adenomas and in males even the functional ones such as prolactinomas. Rising prevalence of obesity is mainly associated with sedentary lifestyle and excess of food intake. Only in rare cases has endocrine etiology such as Cushing disease, hypothyroidism or hypothalamic disorders.Case-report: A 29-year-old man was admitted to our hospital for chest pain, with a hig...