Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Type 2 diabetes is a painless and silent pathology, often overlooked, 30% to 50% underdiagnosed. Its prevalence is constantly increasing. It affects 3 new cases every 10 seconds and more than 6 million per year.Aim of the work: Compare the HbA1c test to the carbohydrate status established by the HGPO on a sample of an unknown Algerian population with diabetes but at high risk. And try to establish HbA1c thresholds by appreciating the validi...

Introduction: Prolactinoma are the most frequent pituitary adenoma, considered benign tumor and well respond to medical treatment, but sometimes, in men prolactinoma may be invasive and aggressive occurring neurological signs.Case 1: Male 53 years old, went to ophtalmology consulting for progressive vision problems associated with headaches from more than a year but denied. On examination visual field showed poor vision in left eye and temporal defect on...

Introduction: Acromegaly is a chronic disease caused by hypersecretion of GH and IGF1, it is associated with a high risk of cancer, however the excess incidence of thyroid cancer remains controversial, we report four cases.Patients and methods: The diagnosis of acromegaly has been placed on a dosage of GH and IGFI, the diagnostic of carcinoma is based on histological study of the surgical specimen.Results: The sex ♀ predomina...

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most frequent endocrinopathy in premenopausal women, and has many clinical features in common with the metabolic syndrome.Objective: The aim of our study was to evaluate the clinical characteristics of our PCOS women.Methods: Of 181 PCOS defined by the Rotterdam criteria and 90 controls were evaluated for anthropometric parameters by physical examination.Results: The PC...

Introduction: Poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma are considered as a link between well differentiated carcinoma and undifferentiated ones. The histological definition is still controversial and various criteria have been proposed.Objective: The main objective of this study is to assess the management of poorly differentiated thyroid cancer in our department.Materials and methods: We reported 30 patients with poorly differentia...