Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Hypertension is a common condition that affects many people all over the world. It could be associated with several complications especially in cases of resistant hypertension. Many clinical practice guidelines recommend screening for primary aldosteronism especially in persons with resistant hypertension owing to the worse prognosis when compared with blood pressure-matched essential hypertension.Objective: The study aimed to screen for prim...

Case report: 21-year-old female patient visited the emergency department with repeated attacks of vomiting accompanied with continuous non radiating epigastric pain diagnosed as acute pancreatitis. She had three plasmapheresis sessions. She gave history of recurrent similar attacks for the last 5 years with frequent hospitalization she is known diabetic since the age of 15.Hypertensive for 1 year. Menarche at age of 14 with only one cycle. Upon admission, the patient was alert...

Introduction: The novel severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2 virus has led to the ongoing Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) disease pandemic. There are increasing reports of extra pulmonary clinical features of COVID-19, either as initial presentations or sequelae of disease ((gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, pancreatic, cardiovascular, ocular, and neurologic) Autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants (ASIA syndrome) can be seen as a post-vaccination p...