Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Artificial hypoglycemia (AH) is the intentional administration of insulin preparations or the use of oral hypoglycemic agents to lower blood glucose levels. It is one of the variants of Munchausen’s syndrome. Hypoglycemia in non-diabetic patients is a blood glucose level of less than 3.0 mmol/l. AH among all causes of non-diabetic hypoglycemia (NDH) is approximately 4-11%. Identification of such cases is an urgent problem in the differential diagnosis of NDH...

Introduction: Prolactinomas are the most common type of pituitary adenomas(40% of them), representing a significant cause of infertility and hypogonadism. About 20% of patients with prolactinomas don’t respond satisfactory(i.e. resistant) even to high dose dopamine agonist(DA) treatment(>3.5–4.5 mg/week). Worth noticing that there are no clear signs to anticipate this resistance but to stepwise increase the dose of DA. In addition, the etiology of resistance &#15...