Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Type 1 diabetic women have generally more menstrual disorders than healthy women.Objectives: Identify the main mechanisms responsible of menstrual disorders in type1 diabetic women.Patients and methods: We conducted a comparative transversal study including 70 patients with type 1 diabetes: Thirty-three having menstrual disorders (group M) and 37 with regular menses (control group T).We compared...

The present study aimed to investigate the effect of time-of-days (TOD) on some biochemical and hormonal responses after resistance training sessions.Methods: Ten trained subjects performed three resistance-training-sessions at 0700 h, 1300 h and 1700 h. Each training-session included six upper and lower body resistance exercises with 3×10 repetitions. Blood lactate (Lac), creatine kinase (CK), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), cortisol (C) and testoster...

Introduction: Subclinical Cushing’s syndrome refers to autonomous cortisol secretion in patients who do not have the typical signs and symptoms of hypercortisolism. This study was undertaken to describe clinical, biological and radiological features of this disease and to evaluate the clinical outcome after surgical and medical treatment.Methods: Retrospective study conducted over a period of 12 years and including 17 patients hospitalised in our de...

Diabetes is a factor favoring infections. Among which, the sepsis that becomes formidable and serious on this ground. The purpose of our work is to study the clinical, therapeutic and evolutionary features of sepsis in diabetics. A retrospective study of 43 cases of septicemia in diabetic patients collected at the service of Sfax Infectious Diseases. There were 22 men and 21 women, mean age 59 (20–78) years. Community origin was present in 88.4% of cases and nosocomial in...

Imipenem (IMP) is a carbapenem antibiotic mainly used to treat nosocomial infection diseases. We aimed to evaluate the oxidative stress of therapeutic doses of imipenem (IMP) on the ovary of ‘wistar’ rats. In this respect, female rats were divided into four groups: animals were intraperitoneally treated with physiological serum, 30, 50 and 80 mg/kg of IMP for one week. We found that therapeutic doses of this drug did not significantly affect the levels of ovarian mal...

IntroductionSolid pseudopapillary tumors (SPT) of the pancreas area rare exocrine pancreatic tumor behaving in a low-grade fashion, with limited local invasion risk and a rare metastatic evolution. They mainly affect young women. Their etiopathogenesis remains uncertain. We report the case of a 15-year-old boy, having congenital anomalies, who presented a solid and pseudopapillarytumour of the pancreas.Case report<p class="abst...