Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Irisin is a new myokin and adipokine related to human obesity and insulin resistance status.Aim: To assess serum irisin level as well as to investigate whether serum irisin is related to glycemic indicators, and micro and macrovascular complications in patients with T2DM.Methods: The study included 60 T2DM patients and 30 healthy controls. Anthropometric measures, neurological assessment and fundus examination were done...

Disorders of sex development create medical and social dilemma. Maleness with XX genotype is a rare genetic condition affecting one in 24,000 new-born males. Characterized by a spectrum of clinical presentation, ranging from normal male genitalia to ambiguous sex.Case report: A 31 years old patient with ambiguous genitalia raised as a male. He came to our endocrinology clinic to stabilize his male identity by surgical correction, no parental consanguinit...

Case report: 21-year-old female patient visited the emergency department with repeated attacks of vomiting accompanied with continuous non radiating epigastric pain diagnosed as acute pancreatitis. She had three plasmapheresis sessions. She gave history of recurrent similar attacks for the last 5 years with frequent hospitalization she is known diabetic since the age of 15.Hypertensive for 1 year. Menarche at age of 14 with only one cycle. Upon admission, the patient was alert...

Introduction: The novel severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2 virus has led to the ongoing Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) disease pandemic. There are increasing reports of extra pulmonary clinical features of COVID-19, either as initial presentations or sequelae of disease ((gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, pancreatic, cardiovascular, ocular, and neurologic) Autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants (ASIA syndrome) can be seen as a post-vaccination p...