Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Graves’ disease is an autoimmune thyroiditis, less common in men but with relapse of hyperthyroidism significantly more frequent in men than in women after anti-thyroid medications’ withdrawal. Craniopharyngioma is a rare brain tumor which arises in the pituitary stalk and project into the hypothalamus. The distribution by age is bimodal with a slight male predominance and a poor survival rate for older than 65 years. The association of these pathologie...

Leucinosis also called Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) is a rare inherited disorder of branched-chain amino acid metabolism classically characterized by poor feeding, lethargy, vomiting and a maple syrup odor in urine with an evolution to encephalopathy and central respiratory failure if untreated. When diagnosed at birth, treatment is based on nutrition therapy aiming at rapidly reducing of toxic metabolites through dietary restriction, shifting towards and preventing or min...