Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The widespread use of highly-active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has drastically improved the life expectancy of patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. However, many of these drugs show multiple interactions with other treatments; protease inhibitors (PI) are especially troublesome as they interact with the hepatic cytochrome P450. There have been previous reports of both Cushing’s syndrome and adrenal insufficiency in patients treated...

Introduction: DRESS (drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms) syndrome is a severe multiorgan drug reaction, often associated with the development of autoimmune diseases. Pathogenically it has been related to the reactivation or the primary infection of different herpes virus.Clinical case: A 33-year-old woman with a history of residual epilepsy, after resection of a cerebellar pleomorphic xantoastrocytoma, started treatment with Levetirace...

Introduction: PRES it’s a neurologic syndrome with multiple manifestations, that includes high blood pressure with a variable range. It usually develops in the context of medications or an underlying condition. The treatment is usually symptomatic and determined by said disease.Objective: We present the case of a patient with PRES linked to the diagnostic of a metastatic PHEO.Case-report: A 72-year-old male underwent left adre...