Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Werner syndrome is a rare genetic disease affecting the WRN gene, of autosomal recessive inheritance.Case-presentation: We report the case of a 34-year-old patient who presented with erectile dysfunction and asthenia. His brother underwent surgery for meningioma. He was also diagnosed with hypogonadism, suffered from bilateral cataract and diabetes, and died following acute Leukemia at the age of 35 years. Our patient is from a second-degre...

Introduction: COVID-19 has been incriminated directly and indirectly in the increase of patients presenting with diabetic ketoacidosis.Aim: The aim of this study is to compare diabetic ketoacidosis precipitating factors in the pre-pandemic and during the pandemic.Methods: This is a retrospective comparative study between patients hospitalized in the diabetology department in the university hospital Farhat Hached of Sousse for diabe...