Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The HAIR-AN syndrome, which consists of hyperandrogenism (HA), insulin resistance (IR) and acanthosis nigricans (AN), is an underdiagnosed endocrinopathy.Observation: We report the case of Miss A.M., 24 years old, admitted for exploration of hyperandrogenism. Anamnesis: the patient reported polyuropolydipsic syndrome and the notion of weight gain without eating disorders, making a total of 28 kg in 6 months. This period is also marked by th...

Introduction: Kallmann syndrome (KS) is a rare disorder. It is now designated as olfactogenital dysplasia with an association between agenesis of the olfactory bulbs and hypogonadism. The association of KS with a pituitary microadenoma has not been well described in the literature.Case report: It’s a 16-year-old and 6 months, admitted for evaluation of a micropenis, he has as ATCDs an orchidopexy performed at the age of 3 years, infertility in the m...

Introduction: -Thyroid disorders can predate or develop during pregnancy. -The effects on the fetus vary depending on the disease and the drugs used for treatment. But usually, untreated or undertreated hyperthyroidism can lead to harmful complications.Case report: It’s a 26-year-old patient with a history of goiter since childhood, history of goiter in the mother; grandmother and maternal aunt. the patient is 18 weeks pregnant, the pregnancy is unp...

Introduction: Antenatal treatment with dexamethasone in pregnancies affected by congenital adrenal hyperplasias (CAH) therefore suppresses fetal androgen production and prevents virilisation of female infants. Antenatal DXM is reported to be efficacious, preventing or ameliorating virilisation in 80–85% of cases.Case report: 23-year-old patient pregnant at 6 weeks, not known of having congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), concept of consanguineous m...

BackgroundIn type 2 diabetes, abnormalities of lipid metabolism and tissue distribution are common and associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. The aim of this work was to study the relationship between the impedancemetric parameters and the lipid profile in a population of type 2 diabetics followed in the Endocrinology Department MED VI of Marrakech.MethodologyBody fat was assessed using ...

Introduction: Compared to normal population, patients with neurofibromatosis are at higher risk for the development of benign and malignant tumors. Pheochromocytomas are relatively rare in neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), and malignant ones are even rarer.Aim of the presentation: Our aim was to report a malignant pheochromocytoma with multiple metastases in a patient with NF1.Case report: A male patient aged 23 years old, with lapar...

Hypoglycemia in non-diabetic patients is a rare event, and autoimmune hypoglycemia with the presence of positive anti-insulin antibodies is even rarer.We report the case of a 15 years old non diabetic female patient, she was referred to our hospital for recurrent hypoglycemia for 2 weeks before admission to hospital, these are severe hypoglycemia with impaired consciousness. The first step was to eliminate the general causes and factitious hypoglycemia. ...

Introduction: Pheochromocytomas are catecholamine producing tumors which arise from chromaffin cells within the adrenal medulla. Silent pheochromocytomas are rare entities that do not present with the classical symptoms commonly seen in catecholamine-secreting tumors. Case report: We report a case of 70-year-old-woman patient who presented with left sided abdominal pain and discomfort for 6 months. A preoperative Computed tomography (CT) scan showed a hu...

Introduction: Mauriac syndrome (MS) is a rare complication of type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM1), characterized by hepatomegaly (hepatic glycogenosis), puberty and growth delay, transaminase elevation and reduction of IGF1 (insulin-like growth factor 1). MS is more common in children and adolescents with poor glycemic control.Case Report: A 17-years-old Type 1 diabetic boy was admitted for evaluation of growth retardation. He was diagnosed to have T1DM 15 ye...

Introduction : Jougerot –sjogreen syndrom is an auto-immune exocrinopathy secondary to the interaction between a favorable ground and environmental factors that can lead to the disease. Thyroiditis can precede sjogreen’s syndrom or follow it, just as the two diagnoses can be made at the same time.Case report : 46-year-old female patient, type 2 diabetic on oral antidiabetic 2g/d, followed for sjogreen jougerot syndrom retained in the face of oc...