Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Excessive consumption of liquorice can cause endocrine symptoms of apparent mineralocorticoid excess (AME). This is usually caused by excessive consumption of liquorice-containing sweets and native liquorice root but the different chemical compounds in liquorice may also be used in many other products where it is considered an additive and therefore not explicitly declared.Case: We here report a 21-year-old patient who exhibited severe symp...

Introduction: Severe hyponatremia defined as the blood sodium concentration below 115 mmol/l is rarely recognised in the course of autoimmune polyglandular syndrome type 2 (APS t.2). The aim of the paper is to present the female patient with severe hyponatremia preceding the diagnosis of APS t.2 of atypical clinical picture.Case report: A 54-year-old woman with the diagnosis of psoriasis established 10 years earlier and treated for psoriatic arthritis fr...

Hypothalamic amenorrhoea is a diagnosis of exclusion, frequent cause of which are medications or psychiatric disorders (bulimia/anorexia). Here we present a case, when its aetiology was gender identity disorder. A 18-year-old girl presented with absence of menses during last year. Menses began at the age of 14 and were regular till age of 16, when she moved to another city. She was seen by gynaecologist because of amenorrhea, and evaluation was performed: FSH 4.6 mU/ml (1.37&#...

Background: Meningitis coexisting with pituitary macroadenoma is rarely observed. It occurs either as a primary meningitis (primary tumor manifestation), or as a secondary meningitis (after neurosurgery or reduction of the volume of the tumor which has destroyed the sellar floor or the skull base).Objective: Case reports of two patients with the concomitance of secondary meningitis and pituitary macroadenoma.Case 1: A 36-year-old m...

Aim of the study: To examine offspring of patients with simple obesity. To ascertain, if there are some disturbances in the carbohydrate or lipid metabolism or unknown type 2 diabetes in these subjects.Method and subjects: Examined were 132 families, 108 families with obesity, and 24 families without obesity, the control group. Fourteen additional were excluded because of ascertained at the time of examination unknown type 2 diabetes in the parents. In a...

Background: Congenital hyperinsulinism (CHI) is one of the commonest causes of recurrent hypoglycaemia due to excess production of insulin in infancy and results in neurological impairment in a third to a half of patients. The treatment of CHI is often complex and complicated by side effects; the medium-term effects of such treatment are not known.Aim: To describe five year clinical outcomes in a cohort of infants with CHI.Methods:...

The aim: To evaluate the efficiency and safety of using closed loop systems in patients with type 1 DM living in Russia.Results: 88 respondents (or those legal representatives) with type 1 DM in insulin therapy by closed loop systems, members of Russian-speaking community, were included to the study. 90% of respondents living in Russia. All respondents using do-it-yourself artificial pancreas systems (DIYAPS): Loop (19.3%), Open APS (30.7%) and Andr...

To study anxiety frequency in school-aged children with diabetes mellitus type 1 (DM type 1) depending on carbohydrate metabolism compensation.Materials and methods: 96 patients with DM type 1 aged 13.9 ± 1.97 years. Diabetes duration is 1.72 ± 22.33 Year. We determined glycated hemoglobin (НbA1). The level of HbA1 of 7.5% or more indicated the decompensation of carbohydrate metabolism. Evaluation of the anxiety level was carried out usin...

Introduction: Septo-optic dysplasia (SOD) is characterized by a combination of midline forebrain, pituitary and eye abnormalities. We aimed to evaluate the clinical, neuroradiological and endocrine features of patients with SOD and multiple pituitary hormone deficiencies (MPHD).Design: Retrospective data were collected from 76 patients with SOD and 26 with MPHD, followed at a single centre. SOD patients were divided into two groups: i) with pituitary hor...

Introduction: Hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia (HH) is characterized by dysregulated insulin secretion and is typically associated with reduced fasting tolerance. We aimed to evaluate the clinical and biochemical characteristics of children presenting with postprandial hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycemia.Methods: Retrospective data collection on children who presented with symptomatic postprandial hypoglycaemia. Children with postprandial hypoglycaemia seconda...