Endocrine Abstracts

Background and aims: The objective of our study is to evaluate the respect of Muslim diabetics for the contraindication of fasting and the control metabolic impact of fasting during the month of Ramadan. Materials and methods: This analytical cross-sectional study was conducted during the period from Mars to June of the year 2021, within the department of endocrinology and metabolic diseases of the Military Hospital of Instruction Moham...

Introduction: We report a case of malignant hypercalcemia complicated by acute pancreatitis, in a patient whose cardiac insufficiency obliged us to use an unconventional therapeutic means: calcimimeticsCase Report: Mrs. Halima, 74 years old, had a history of arterial hypertension complicated by ischemic heart disease at the stage of heart failure. She consulted the emergency room for typical pancreatic pain, the biological workup found a lipasemia at 30 ...

Introduction: We report the case of a patient with corticotropic insufficiency associated with diabetes insipidus who presented to the emergency room with profound hyponatremia; a complicated situation, whose solution was hidden in the galenic form of Desmopressin.Case report: Mrs Y. Amina, 37 years old, has been followed for 10 years for a non Langerhansian histiocytosis of pituitary location, complicated by a corticotropic insufficiency under hydrocort...

Introduction: Pituitary apoplexy is an acute infarction and/or hemorrhage of the normal or tumoral pituitary gland. It is a rare mode of revelation of pituitary adenomas, and the only situation where the pituitary adenoma can be complicated by a diabetes insipidus. Case report: Mrs Amina. Y, 54 years old, has been followed for 8 years for diabetes mellitus treated with metformin, and dyslipidemia under statins, presents in consultation for a severe polyu...

Introduction: The revelation of primary hyperparathyroidism by acute pancreatitis is an exceptional situationCase report: We report the case of a 73 years old patient, hypertensive, having the antecedent of an ischemic cardiopathy complicated by cardiac insufficiency and atrial fibrillation, admitted to the emergency for an abdominal pain evolving since 10 days, associated with vomiting, the initial biological assessment showed lipasemia at 2543IU/l, kid...