Endocrine Abstracts

In patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), dysfunction of β-cellsstarts years before the diagnosis of T2DM and rapidly worsens after overt hyperglycemia. Use of short-term intensive insulin therapy (STIIT) at the time of diagnosis of overt hyperglycemia has shown clinical recovery of β-cells for up to 2 years. A systematic literature review of studies looking for the effect of STIIT, used within two years of diagnosis of T2DM, on the duration from relapse of h...

Introduction: Clinical features of severe headache, vision loss, and papilledema; normal neuroimaging and elevated opening pressure on lumbar puncture are diagnostic of idiopathic intracranial hypertensions (IIH) or pseudotumor cerebri. Etiology is often attributed to obesity in young female patients. We present a rare case of Pseudotumor cerebri in a non-obese female patient with severe hypocalcemia.Case: A 26 year old Hispanic female patient with past ...

Introduction: COVID 19 is now a global pandemic. Diabetes is postulated to be a risk factor for mortality due to COVID –19Methods: We retrospectively evaluated the inpatient medical record data, of patients admitted over last two months in a public hospital in Central India to compare the attributes of mortality in patients without T2DM and with T2DM including their glycemic clinical characteristics. Unpaired t – test and Fisher’s exact...