Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Oral disorders are quite frequent in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 in particular elderly patients. Their presence at this type of persons may influence the glycemic balance and entail a reduction of the masticatory potential with a risk of malnutrition. The purpose of the work is to establish the relationship between the oral disorders and the nutritional status of the elderly subjects with diabetes mellitus type 2.Patients and Met...

Introduction: The transition period to young adult counseling is a crucial period for the diabetic patient. A poor transition exposes them to a risk of disengagement from the health system and mismanagement of diabetes. The objective of this work is to describe the progress of the transition and to deduce the facilitating and restraining elements.Patients and methods: This were a retrospective study of 120 referred diabetic type 1 patients from the pedia...

Introduction: Acute pancreatitis is a common disease of simple evolution in 80% of cases, but burdened with increased morbidity and mortality especially in the diabetic patient because of his atypical symptomatology delaying his diagnosis. The objective of this study is to evaluate the clinical features of acute pancreatitis in diabetic patients.Methods: Retrospective descriptive study including 60 patients followed in the endocrinology department of Cas...

Introduction: Beta-thalassemia major is a genetic syndrome accompanied by a defect in hemoglobin synthesis leading to severe anemia. Conventional treatment of this hemoglobinopathy involves repeated blood transfusions exposing the patient to iron overload, which represents the main morbidity due to visceral and endocrine complications. We report the case of a patient treated for beta-thalassemia with endocrine complications associated with post transfusion hemochromatosis....

Introduction: According to the literature, there is a link between obesity and thyroid cancer. A high body mass index (BMI) increases the risk of thyroid cancer and its progression, although their mechanism is still unknown.Objective: To evaluate the association between obesity and the clinical-biological profile of differentiated thyroid cancers.Materials and methods: We conducted a retrospective study carried out in the Endocrino...

Introduction: Patients with either papillary thyroid carcinoma or melanoma have an increased risk of developing the other cancer as a second primary malignant neoplasm. We report a rare case of malignant melanoma (CM) and papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) that were diagnosed and treated simultaneously.Observation: We report a case about a 46-year-old male, in whom examination of a skin biopsy that was obtained from a lesion in the right big toe revealed ...

Introduction: Differentiated thyroid cancers are rare (less than 1% of cancers), and generally have a positive prognosis: Their mortality rate increases steadily with age.Objective: To assess the biologic behavior of differentiated thyroid carcinoma in patients aged 65 years or older and evaluated factors that influenced long-term survival\.Patients and methods: We conducted a retrospective study of elderly patients (>65 years)...

Introduction: Cases of spinal ganglionic chains invasion due to a thyroid carcinoma are exceptional. We are reporting the observation of a patient with thyroid papillary carcinoma, with insular component, revealed by retro-spinal lymphadenopathy.Observation: Our patient is 55-year-old with no particular pathological history, consulting due to the development of a posterior cervical swelling gradually increasing in volume. A cervical ultrasound was perfor...

Introduction: Differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) can often be multifocal. However, the multifocal character as associated with a more pejorative prognosis remains controversial. The objective of our study is to describe the clinical, histological and evolutionary characteristics of multifocal DTCs.Materials and methods: Retrospective study including 159 patients diagnosed with a multifocal CDT, treated at the endocrinology service of the University H...

Introduction: Follicular or vesicular cancers represent 5 to 10% of differentiated thyroid cancers (CTD) and are therefore the second leading cause of endocrine tumors after papillary thyroid cancer. They can be minimally or massively invasive, and thus represent a more aggressive histological type compared to the papillary. The aim of our work is to describe in our context the clinical and evolutionary features of thyroid tumors of vesicular origin.Mate...