Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: The diagnosis of premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) is a traumatic event for many patients that involves poor fertility prognosis. After such diagnosis spontaneous pregnancies are rare. The alternatives for building a family are oocyte donation, embryo donation and adoption. However, we have few information on how many women with POI finally built a family after the diagnosis and which alternative they chose.Design: We performed a cross-sec...

Classical forms of 21 hydroxylase defisciency are generally observed during bith life and present as loss of salt or rapid puberty in young boy. We report a rare case of classical 21 hydroxylase defisciency presented as low gonadotrophines contrasted with normal level of testosterone. This was related to a 39 years old patient consulted for male infertility. Clinical exam was normal, including a normal level of blood tension. Liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry...

Classical forms of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) are generally diagnosed in neonates (salt wasting form) or in early childhood (pure virilizing form). Here, we report the case of a 39 years old man from Sri Lanka in whom a classical CAH has been diagnosed during the exploration of infertility with azoospermia, along with extremely low gonadotropins contrasting with a normal level of testosterone. Hormonal tests revealed high serum 17-hydroxyprogesterone levels (255 ng/m...