Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Adrenal adenomas development has been partially explained by aberrant adrenal expression of some hormone receptors. Klinefelter’s syndrome is a common cause of hypergonadotropic hypogonadism, which is characterized by increased serum LH level. In this case, we report a patient with Klinefelter syndrome, who was later diagnosed with a non secreting adrenal adenoma.Case presentation: We report the case of a 57 years old patient, diagnose...

Introduction: Nowadays, social media has become a valuable source of health-related information which can have an important impact on people’s behaviors and decisions regarding their diseases. To improve management of diabetes, patients often seek health information in social media platforms, including Youtube. We aim in this review to analyse factors associated with the popularity of videos found on YouTube that adress diabetes management.Methods: ...

Introduction: Nowadays, social media has become a valuable source of health-related information which can have an important impact on people’s behaviors and decisions regarding their diseases. To improve management of diabetes, patients often seek health information in social media platforms, including Youtube. However, the nature of its content, which anyone can upload, isn’t always reliable and scientifically accurate, sometimes even misleading. The aim of this stu...

Introduction: Gelastic seizures have been typically described with hypothalamic hamartomas and precocious puberty. Invasive EEG recordings have shown that gelastic seizures originated from the hypothalamic hamartomas, however recent findings have shown that they might also arise from other central lesions, like tumors, malformations of cortical development, postinfectious foci and other hypotalamic or pituitary abnormalities. In this case, we describe a patient with gelastic s...

Introduction: Growth hormone deficiency (GHD) is a rare cause of delay of growth. However, it is primordial to screen for it since its presence leads to a specific treatment which improves statural prognosis. GHD should be confirmed through stimulation tests such as Insulin Tolerance test (ITT) or Clonidine Stimulation Test (CST). The objective of our study was to compare these two diagnostic tools.Methods: We conducted a retrospective study in the endoc...