Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Pituitary adenomas are a rare condition in children and young people. The prolactinoma represents the most frequent of them. We report a case of an atypically evolution of aggressive macroprolactinoma in young patient.Case: It’s about a boy of 14 years old with previous history of headache from 5 years without visual disturbance. He was admitted for intracranial hypertension syndrome. In clinical examination no dysmorphic syndrome, a g...

Introduction: Clinically non-secreting pituitary adenomas are rare in children We report a case of a silent somatotropic adenoma revealed by anatomopathology.Case: A 13 year-old patient with no prior history of sudden onset intracranial hypertension syndrome. Clinical examination showed no dysmorphic Syndrome, no galactorrhea, no delay or statutory advance, Tanner P1S3. The MRI reveals a heterogeneous tumor process intra and suprasellar of 30 mm *15 mm o...

Introduction: The auto immune’s diseases are also involved in the heart’s failure. Grave disease(GD) is an autoimmune thyroid disease that often linked by pericarditis. We report a case of an acute pericarditis that was also presumed to be associated with GD.Case report: A 59 years old who 10 pack years smoker. admitted for chest pain and shortness breathstage 3NYHA. At the investigation there was a progessive emaciation of 12 kg within 7 mon...