Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Type 2 diabetes is a springboard to metabolic and cardiovascular complications. The objective of our work was to investigate the different cardiovascular risk factors in diabetic type 2 population, and study relation between the level of cardiovascular risk and the occurrence of degenerative complications.Patients and Methods: Retrospective study including 149 patients with type 2 diabetes consultant at the Department of Endocrinology at th...

Introduction: Incidentally discovered adrenal incidentalomas has been reported to be as high as 5% of abdominal cross-sectional imaging performed for reasons unrelated to the adrenal gland. Although the management of bilateral and unilateral incidentalomas is the same, some studies suggest differences between the two groups.Patients and Methods: Retrospective study including 91 patients with adrenal incidentaloma at the Department of Endocrinology, Charl...

Introduction: In 1974, the first case of concomitant thyroid and parathyroid disease was reported. Non-medullary thyroid carcinoma has been reported in 6% of patients with Primary hyperparathyroidism. However, the simultaneous occurrence of parathyroid carcinoma along with non-medullary thyroid carcinoma is extremely rare.Case report: We report a case of 60-year-old woman with a history of Diabetes Mellitus type 2 and hypertension. She had no family hist...