Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Charcot foot is a painless progressive osteoarthropathy of one or more joints due to an underlying neurological lesion, leading to deformities of the foot by the non-infectious destruction of bones and joints.The interest of this observation is to show on the one hand the role that the education of diabetics plays in the early diagnosis of Charcot foot and on the other hand the need for a multidisciplinary team in the care of the foot of Ch...

Introduction: 11-Hydroxylase deficiency is a rare form of congenital adrenal hyperplasia characterized by glucocorticoid deficiency, hypertension, hypokalemia and virilization in females. We report a case of congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 11beta-hydroxylase deficiency revealed by bilateral papilledema in the context of arterial hypertension.Case report: A 13-year-old patient, with no medical history, presented with complains of headache, vomiting ...

Introduction: Choroidal metastases are among the most common malignant ocular tumors. In the majority of cases, their origin is pulmonary in men and mammary in women. We present a rare case of choroidal metastasis from a vesicular thyroid carcinoma.Case presentation: A 35-year-old woman presented to our department complaining of progressive vision reduction in the right eye. Six years previously, she was operated for vesicular carcinoma of the thyroid wi...

Introduction: Graves’ ophthalmopathy, also called Graves’ orbitopathy, is a potentially sight-threatening ocular disease that has puzzled physicians and scientists for nearly two centuries. Generally occurring in patients with hyperthyroidism or a history of hyperthyroidism due to Graves’ disease, Graves’ ophthalmopathy is also known as thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy or thyroid eye disease, because it sometimes occurs in patients with euthyroid or hypoth...