Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Thyroid disorders are common within the elderly population and are particularly challenging to diagnose and treat due to the presence of a wide variety of comorbidities. Graves’ ophtalmopathy remains a therapeutic predicament despite all progress made in understanding its pathogenesis, especially in the elderly population with severe presentation.Case presentation: We present the case of a 71-years-old female patient who was admitted i...

Introduction: Morbidly obese patients raise many problems in therapeutic attitude, sometimes associating a cluster of obesity-related abnormalities: hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, metabolic syndrome, respiratory insufficiency, and high risk for cardiovascular disease. These afflictions can be reversed through weight loss, especially in young patients.Case presentation: We present the case of a 41 year old male patient, smoker, with morbid obesity (BMI =6...

Introduction: Obesity is generally associated with a chronic state of subclinical inflammation. The assessment of the inflammatory status is routinely made by measuring circulating levels of nonspecific proinflammatory markers. Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NRL) is a new simple inflammatory marker which can be reliable in evaluating the inflammatory status occurring in morbidly obese patients. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between NLR as an index ...

Introduction: Central diabetes insipidus is a rare, chronic disease characterized by polyuria and polydipsia due to a partial or total vasopressin deficiency (hypothalamic – neurohypophysial system damage). The aetiology can be familial (autosomal dominant inheritance, X-linked recessive traits; mutation of the vasopressin – neurophysin II genes), secondary (tumours, infections, infiltrative diseases, trauma, vascular lesions) and idiopathic (10–30%).<p clas...