Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The aim of diabetes treatment is to keep blood glucose levels as near to normal as possible. Training in self management of diabetes forms an essential part of diabetes management. Treatment should be agreed on an individual basiss and adress medical psychosocial and lifestyle issues. But how much diabetes patients are satisfaied about their treatment?Materials and Methods: Diabetes Treatment Satisfaction questionnaire (DTSQs</stron...

Introduction: Anemia is defined by the World Health Organization as a hemoglobin concentration less than 120 g/l in women outside of pregnancy, and less than 130 g/l in men over 15 years of age. It is common in diabetics. It can be due to an autoimmune disease associated with type 1 diabetes, whereas the inflammatory cause is the primary cause in type 2 diabetes.Observation: This is a 75 year old patient, type 2 diabetic for 21 years on insulin analogues...

Introduction: Insulin therapy remains a treatment of last resort for type 2 diabetic patients with uncontrolled diabetes with oral antidiabetic. The aim of this study was to find a correlation between the initial dose of insulin and the glycated hemoglobin (A1c) level.Methods: We conducted a cross sectional study. We included 63 patients with type 2 diabetes hospitalized for a switching to insulin in the C department of diabetology and nutrition at the N...

Parathyroid cancer is a rare cause of primary hyperparathyroidism (PPH). The objective of this work is to discuss clinical and therapeutic specificities of these tumors.Case n°151-year-old woman from a consanguineous marriage, with a family history of recurrent renal lithiasis, neoplasia, and a personal history of breast neoplasia and uterine fibroid, consulted for abdominal pain, vomiting and weight loss. The diagnosis of pri...