Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Acromegaly is a rare disease characterised by an excessive production of growth hormone (GH), from a pituitary adenoma. It is a curable disease, either by surgery or by medical treatment, but very rare it can spontaneously cure by the apoplexy of the pituitary adenoma.Case presentation: We present the case of a 58-year-old female who was suspected of acromegaly due to her physical appearance: soft tissue swelling and enlargement of the extrem...

Background: Empty sella (ES) is often an incidental imaging finding, associated or not with the following symptoms: headache, hypopituitarism or visual impairment. Two etiological forms are described: primary ES due to a combination of increased spinal fluid pressure and a defect in the sella diaphragm and secondary ES due to the shrinkage of the pituitary gland (after pituitary surgery, radiation, apoplexy, hypophysitis or neurosarcoidosis).Clinical cas...