Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Pituitary apoplexy (PA) is a rare incident defined by the occurrence of necrosis and/or haemorrhage of the pituitary gland. The low incidence of PA makes it difficult to bring out from the studies its precipitating factors and especially its relationship with cardiovascular risk factors (CVR). The objectives of this studies were to characterize a number of patients with PA and to establish the link between PA and their CVRs.Methods: It is a...

Introduction: VonHippel Lindau (VHL) disease is an autosomal dominant disorder, responsible of the occurrence of multiple endocrine and non-endocrine lesions. When it comes to this hereditary syndrom., pheochromocytoma and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNET) require special monitoring and an appropriate treatment, The object of this case report is to highlight the different clinical presentation of the same lesion in the same patient and the difficulties in decisions&#8217...

Introduction: Acromegaly is, in most cases, caused by growth hormone (GH) -secreting pituitary adenomas that lead to characteristic phenotypical changes. Its association with emty sella (ES) has been described and different theories has been given to explain such situation. Moreover, patients with acromegaly often develops different pathologies of the thyroid gland, however, the occurrence of grave’s disease (GD) is quite a rare situation. Here we report a case of a pati...