Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Lymphocytic hypophysitis is a strange cause of hypopituitarism which can represent a difficult diagnostic and therapeutic challenge.Objectives and methods: Describe the diagnosis, evolution and treatment of a case of lymphocytic hypophysitis in a patient who began with hypopituitarism and a year after the diagnosis had local symptoms. We reviewed the medical history of the patient from the moment the patient contacted with us to the months ...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to analyze the effects of Liraglutide in hepatic steatosis as well as clinical and biochemical data before and after 6 months.Methods: We have retrospectively analysed epidemiological, anthropometric and laboratory data of 83 type 2 diabetic patients treated with Liraglutide and followed at different endocrinology units across east Andalusia. We have evaluated nonalcoholic fatty liver disease using liver enzymes an...

Objective: We retrospectively analyzed patients with type 1 diabetes onset, attended during the years 2005 and 2006 on the specific query of type 1 DM debut of a tertiary hospital, with initial treatment assessment, at 1 and 5 years evolution.Results: Patients were treated for newly diagnosed DM 1, 25 patients (72% male, 28% female) mean age 23.2 years (14–36), mean BMI: 23.18 (18–33.8%).The clinical presentation included: 88.24% presented with...

Objectives: MODY diabetes is the most common form of monogenic diabetes, encompassing a heterogeneous group of disorders whose primary defect results from mutations in one of at least seven genes recognized, associated with a primary defect in insulin secretion. It has early onset and autosomal dominant inheritance.Our objective was to evaluate the results of monogenic diabetes clinic of the Endocrinology and Nutrition Department during 2008–2012.</...