Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Acromegaly is a rare and misdiagnosed disease characterized by somatotropic hypersecretion. The purpose of this study is to describe the epidemiological, clinical, para-clinical, therapeutic features of Acromegaly disease.Patients and methods: This is a retrospective study including 10 patients with acromegaly in the Endocrinology Diabetology Department of Oujda’s Mohammed VI University Hospital, Morocco.Results:...

Introduction: Somatostatinanalogues (SSAs) are the largest contributor to the direct medical cost of acromegaly management worldwide. The aim of this review was to expose our experience and report available evidence on the effectiveness of SSAs in the treatment of acromegaly.Methods: This is a retrospective study including ten acromegalic patients followed in the Endocrinology - Diabetology Department at Mohamed VI University Hospital in Oujda, Morocco.<...

Introduction: The osteoarticular complications of acromegaly are among most disabling impacts, and can be explained by two mechanisms, chronic exposure to high levels of GH and IGF1 leading to increased bone turnover, hypertrophy and osteocartilaginous degeneration, as well as the gonadal insufficiency observed during acromegaly may aggravate the situation. The objective of this study is to describe the rheumatological manifestations of acromegaly.Materi...

Introduction: The performance of medical imaging leads to the incidental discovery of many silent and ignored tumor lesions. The term “adrenal incidentaloma” (AI) is a neologism for an adrenal mass discovered incidentally during an abdominal imaging examination, not motivated by the exploration of adrenal pathology, most of the time asymptomatic. Several authors hypothesize that adrenal adenomas could be a manifestation of the metabolic syndrome and that the prevalen...

IntroductionThe pituitary glycoprotein hormones, luteinizing hormone (LH), follicule-stimulating hormone (FSH), thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) are comprised of two separate noncovalently bound subunits:alpha and beta units. The alpha subunit is identical in all of the hormones, while the β-subunit is unique for each hormone and confers the specific immunologic and functional activity.Hypersecretion of the gl...

IntroductionMobile health technology has been highly beneficial for people with diabetes, offering a plethora of educational patterns especially during COVID-19 pandemic. Diabetes self-management education through telehealth technologies is important in promoting health practices and in reducing the risk of complications. Nevertheless, the challenge is to elaborate a digital application in light of sociocultural background and economic status.<p clas...

IntroductionGonadotropin-secreting adenomas occupy nowadays the third or fourth place of all pituitary adenomas (12 to 17% of pituitary adenomas operated on), after prolactinomas, somatotropic adenomas and corticotropic adenomas. They can be either accompanied by hypersecretion of gonadotropins or their dosable subunits in plasma recognized only by immunocytochemistry. Gonadotropic adenomas are not uncommon. They are often misknown because they lack any ...

Introduction: The prevalence of obesity is increasing in the world. It constitutes a major risk factor associated with diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia and cardiovascular diseases. The aim of our work is to compare the metabolic profile of morbid obesity with that of moderate to severe obesity.Patients and methodsIt is a Retrospective, descriptive and analytical study, including 63 obese patients, followed at the endocrinology, diabetology and nutrition department of the C...