Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) is a common endocrine disorder most commonly caused by a single adenoma of the parathyroid gland and rarely related to ectopic thymic parathyroid adenoma.Observation: 1st case: we report a case of a 46-year-old woman, diagnosed with PHPT. Scintigraphy concluded to a left inferior parathyroid adenoma. She underwent a focal parathyroid surgery and the adenoma was located in the thymus. The histopa...

Introduction: In Tunisia, the prescription of insulin analogs is increasingly « automatic » by practicians, convinced by this treatment superiority over human insulin in diabetes management. The aim of our study is to determine whether the analogs prescription modalities and advantages are known by the patients, and to assess the factors associated with this knowledge.Patient and Methods: We conducted a retrospective study including 65 diabetic...

Introduction: Neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) is an autosomal dominant genetic disorder that cause a growth of noncancerous tumors in the nervous system, it associates cranial schwannomas, meningiomas, and skin and ophthalmologic lesions. It is a rare condition and its association with an intrasellar arachnoidocele has not been reported yet. We report the case of a patient who presents a NF2 associated with hypopituitarism related to an intrasellar arachnoidocele.<p class="...

Introduction: Precocious puberty (PP) is a rare pathology involving approximatively 0.2% of girls and less than 0.05% of boys and is defined as the appearance of secondary sex characteristics before 8 years of age in girls and before 9 years of age in boys. We report an unusual case of a patient who presents a precocious puberty associated to a primary adrenal insufficiency.Case presentation: We describe a case of a 7-year and 4 months old girl referred ...

Introduction: Sarcoidosis may affect the central and peripheral nervous systems in 5–16% of patients. In most cases, such involvement occurs within a multi-systemic disease. Neurological involvement is rare but a potentially life-threatening form of sarcoidosis. The endocrine manifestations of neurosarcoidosis include hypothalamic dysfunction, diabetes insipidus, hypopituitarism, and amenorrhea–galactorrhea syndrome. Herein, we report the case of a patient with hypop...