Endocrine Abstracts

Infundibulohypophysitis is an unusual inflammatory condition that affects the infundibulum, the pituitary stalk and the neurohypophisis and may be a part of a range that includes lymphocityc hypophysitis. It occurs mainly in women and most often presents in later stages of pregnancy. Infundibilohypophysitis usually presents with diabetes insipidus. The case of a 30-year-old woman with diabetus insipidus diagnosticated in the third trimester of the pregnancy is reported. She wa...

Graves’ disease (GD) and myasthenia gravis (MG) may be associated and influence one another clinical expression. We report the cases of 3 female patients who presented this particular association. First patient (RL, 55 years), was diagnosed with MG and, 5 years after, developed GD, remitted after 2 years of anti-thyroid drugs (ATD). She is still euthyroid after more than 10 years, and MG is compensated with moderate doses of anticholinesterase drugs (ACD). Thoracic CT sho...

The postpartum period is accompanied by an increased risk for autoimmune diseases. SN, 29 years of age, developed subsequent to her second pregnancy a polymorphic syndrome, characterized by fatigue, paleness, amenorrhea, agalactia, palpitations, weight loss. Hormonal investigations suggested corticotrophic, somatotrophic (basal morning plasma cortisol – 35 ng/dl, basal GH – 0.1 mIU/l, insulin-induced hypoglycemia test: plasma cortisol – 58 ng/dl, GH – 0.1 m...