Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Pituitary apoplexy is caused by an infarction or a haemorrhage in a pituitary adenoma manifesting in acute headaches, consciousness impairment, endocrine features, and moderate to severe visual loss, with chiasmal syndrome or oculomotor palsies.Case report: We describe here a case of a 25 years old woman, followed in our institute for a Cushing disease, and who underwent a pituitary apoplexy 24 h after a standard low-dose dexamethasone supp...

Medullary carcinoma of the thyroid (MCT) is a tumor developed at the expense of the thyroid parafollicular cells, and secretes the polypeptide hormone calcitonin. It is known as an aggressive tumor that metastasizes early. Case Report: We describe a case of a 57 year-old women, who presented a neck mass, for which she underwent a total thyroidectomy associated to a bilateral neck dissection and was diagnose as MCT. Post operatively calcitonin remained elevated (19000 pg/ml). C...

Primary lymphocytic hypophysitis is an autoimmune endocrinopathy affecting mainly women during pregnancy and psot-partum. We report the observation of a 28 year old patient, G5P2C2 with a progressive pregnancy at 32 SA, with a history of hypertension without any particular familial history. The patient had an ophthalmologic examination as part of the exploration of the repercussions of hypertension, which objectified an abnormal excavation of the left eye at the fundus examina...

Introduction: SOD is a rare congenital anomaly, with an incidence of 1 in 10 000 live births, the adipsic hypernatremia is a rare osmoregulation Disorder observed in SOD.Case report: We report a case of a 28 months infant, the eldest of a sibling group of 2 children, referred by the pediatrician for exploration of a staturo-ponderal delay. At clinical examination we found a harmonious staturo-ponderal delay and a median line anomaly of development a...