Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) is a genetically linked, autoimmune form of type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) that accounts for 2–12% of all cases of diabetes.The goal of our study is to detect LADA among patients who were diagnosed as type 2 DM and who became insulin requiring.Methods: Our study included 45 patients (15 men, 30 women) diagnosed as type 2 DM, who had a poor glycemic control on oral hypogl...

Insulinoma is a very rare type of islet cell tumor. The aim of our study is to report our clinical experience with insulinoma in order to determine clinical, biological, radiological and therapeutic particularities of this tumor type.It’s a retrospective study, including five patients (three women and two men) referred to our department between 2005 and 2011 for hypoglycemia exploration. Mean age of our group is 39.8±15.4 years (ranges: 20&#150...

One of the most clinical characteristic of Turner’s syndrome is the final short stature.In order to cure this handicap, several teams were interested to treat these patients by the GH.We report two cases of Turner syndrome associated with GH deficiency.In the first, a 17 years old girl, having a delayed growth lower than −4 S.D. associated with delayed puberty and dysmorphic syndrome...