Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Glucose metabolism disorder (GMD) is a classic complication of acromegaly, but its frequency varies from study to study.Aim: We aimed to analyze GMD frequency in our population, and predictive factors such as: family history of diabetes mellitus (DM), age, gender, and GH rates.Subjects and methods: It is a prospective study where 75 hypersomatotropic subjects were analyzed. They all had fasting and postprandial blood ...

Introduction: Charles Bonnet syndrome is almost unknown by the endocrinologists. It is composed by visual hallucinations that do not react with the patient contrary to psychiatric hallucinations. The abnormal visions (generally hidden by patients) appear in subjects with an impaired vision of one of both eyes as in the following case:Case report: A man aged 27, was referred for acromegaly secondary to a huge invasive somatolactotrope pituitary adenomas d...

Introduction: Glucose metabolism disorder (GMD) is a classic complication of acromegaly, but its frequency varies from study to study.Aim: We aimed to analyze GMD frequency in our population, and predictive factors such as: family history of diabetes mellitus (DM), age, gender, and growth hormone (GH) rates.Subjects and methods: It is a prospective study where 75 hypersomatotropic subjects were analyzed. They all had fasting and po...

Introduction: Pituitary somatotrop adenomas are very rare in children and adolescents. They are supposed to be more invasive (invasion of cavernous sinuses or meninges±compression of adjacent neural structures) than adults’ones. We aimed to analyze their characteristics, and their complications.Patients and subjects: are studied subjects whose clinical symptoms began before 20 years old. They all had biological, hormonal, ophthalmological, radi...

Introduction: Neurohypophysis tumors also called pituicytomas are very rare low grade gliomas of the brain that developed in the posterior part of the pituitary gland. Our aim is to report two cases whose diagnosis was made by MRI in the first case and by histology in the second case.Cases reports: Observation No. 1: a woman aged 33 consulted for polyuria and polydypsia due to central diabetes insipidus without pituitary insufficiency. The MRI discovered...