Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Diabetic muscle infarction (DMI) is a rare complication of long-standing, poorly controlled diabetes, and it’s more common in patients with micro-vascular complications. Herein, we present a case of DMI occurring in patient on hemodialysis.Case presentation: A 44-year-old man on maintenance hemodialysis presented with an acutely painful and swelling in his left calf. He had a 21-year history of poorly controlled type one diabetes, with...

Background: The risk of myocardial infarction among patients with type 1 diabetes is, in addition to traditional cardiovascular disease risk factors, associated with duration of diabetes, reduced glycemic control and renal complications. However, the specific cardiovascular risk predictor models for type 1 diabetes mellitus are subject to many limitations and aggressive macrovascular disease can rarely happen at an early age.Case Presentation: We report ...

Introduction: Graves’ orbitopathy (GO) is an autoimmune inflammation of the orbital tissues and it’s the most frequent extrathyroidal complication of Graves’ disease (GD). It typically develops concomitantly with GD, but, it can also precede it or occurs secondarily. We report the case of a patient who presented with GO 40 years after the diagnosis of GD.Case report: A 74-year-old patient with history of arterial hypertension, type 2 diabe...

Introduction: Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) due to 11-beta-hydroxylase (11β-OHD) deficiency is, in order of frequency, the second most common form after 21 hydroxylase deficiency. We report the cases of patients with 11β-OHD followed in our department.Patient 1: The patient was referred to our department at the age of 13. The history of the disease dates back to the age of 3, when the child presented pubic and axillary hair and a large p...

Introduction: Diabetic muscle infarction (DMI) is a rare complication of long-standing, poorly controlled diabetes, and it’s more common in patients with micro-vascular complications. Herein, we present a case of DMI occurring in patient on hemodialysis.Case presentation A 44-year-old man on maintenance hemodialysis presented with an acutely painful and swelling in his left calf. He had a 21-year history of poorly controlled type one diabetes, with micro-vascular complica...