Endocrine Abstracts

Extraadrenal paraganglioma is a rare tumor. The clinical and pathological findings of patients with abdominal localization paragangliomas (perihepatic, paraaortic, interaortocaval and retroperitoneal) are described. Its characteristics and diagnostic imaging are analyzed, as well as its therapeutic management. Between January 2021 and January 2022, 3 patients with extra-adrenal paragangliomas were diagnosed, all of them women. The age of our patients was 26, 57 and 67 years. T...

A 47-year-old male with a history of severe persistent asthma and recurrent respiratory infections with admissions to the Pulmonology Department. The patient underwent a study due to weight loss, diarrhoea and Ca 19.9 elevation. Imaging tests (abdominal CT and MRI cholangio) were performed, which highlighted severe pancreatic fat infiltration. The cystic fibrosis study was completed with genetics (positive: two heterozygous switches F508del and D1152H), sweat test (45 mmol/l -...

Introduction: The clinical presentation of ectopic Cushing’s syndrome secondary to pheochromocytoma differs from the classic manifestations of these endocrinopathies separately. This cosecretion causes greater morbidity, requiring a complex preoperative preparation. We describe two clinical cases, a 46-year-old male with grade II overweight and a 65-year-old female with grade I obesity, both with a personal history of hypertension poorly controlled with 7 and 3 antihypert...