Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Central diabetes insipidus (CDI) is a heterogeneous condition characterized by the presence of polyuria and polydipsia due to a deficiency of arginine vasopressin. Frequently, CDI is wrongly considered idiopathic if not associated with other signs and symptoms.Case report: We report the case of a 50-year-old woman diagnosed with idiopathic central diabetes insipidus at the age of 34. The MRI scan of the hypothalamus and pituitary gland was ...

Introduction: Acromegaly is a chronic disorder usually caused by growth hormone (GH)-secreting pituitary adenomas. Transsphenoidal surgery remains a treatment of choice for restoring GH to normal levels. The aim of this study was to illustrate the relationship between some factors and transsphenoidal surgery outcomes.Patients and methods: We retrospectively analysed the outcome of 31 patients with acromegaly after initial endoscopic transsphenoidal surge...

Background: Although the issue of cardiovascular complications in type 2 diabetic patients is widely discussed and recommendations for such screening are known, it is less common to do so for type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). Unfortunately, the mortality rate due to vascular complications is higher among type 1 diabetic patients than in the general population.Patients and methods: Seventy-six patients with T1DM history over 20 years were included in our s...

Background: Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have a greater risk for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality than those without T2DM. This risk is even further aggravated if they also suffer from hypertension and/or dyslipidaemia. However, better cardiovascular outcome can be reached by tight control of blood glucose, serum lipids, and blood pressure (BP).Patients and methods: One hundred and nineteen patients were consecutively enrolled. Wel...

Introduction: Adrenal hemangioma (AH) is a benign vascular tumor of the adrenal gland. The adrenal site of an hemangioma is extremely rare occurring only in 0.01% of cases and accounts for 63 reported cases in the literature. AH are often discovered as incidentalomas either by imaging studies or histologic examination. The role of computed tomography (CT) scan and Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is important for the differential diagnosis.Case report: W...

Introduction: VonHippel Lindau (VHL) disease is an autosomal dominant disorder, responsible of the occurrence of multiple endocrine and non-endocrine lesions. When it comes to this hereditary syndrom., pheochromocytoma and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNET) require special monitoring and an appropriate treatment, The object of this case report is to highlight the different clinical presentation of the same lesion in the same patient and the difficulties in decisions&#8217...

Introduction: Cushing’s disease (CD) is reported in 60-70% of all patients with Cushing’s syndrome (CS), but occurs only in approximately 33% of the reported CS cases in pregnancy. Nevertheless, despite its rarity, pregnancy in patients with CS can be troublesome because of the risk of maternal-fetal complications.Observation: A 28-year-old female patient was referred to our endocrinology department for a suspected CS with morphological alter...

Introduction: Leydig cell tumors (LCTs) are uncommon neoplasms arising from gonadal stroma, accounting for 1–3% of all testicular tumors in adults. The etiology of LCT remains unclear. About 25% of LCTs secrete predominantly estrogens, which produce gynecomastia.Observation: We report a case of a 53-year-old male patient who sought evaluation for bilateral gynecomastia. He had a long-term use of amitriptyline and benzodiazepine. The physical examin...

Introduction: Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) represents 3–10% of all thyroid cancer. The presence of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (mPTC) in patients undergoing thyroidectomy for multinodular goiter has been reported as 3–7%.The occurrence of multiple thyroid cancers of different origin in one individual patient is a rare event. We report the case of synchronous papillary and medullary thyroid cancer developed in heterogynous recurrent ...

Introduction: Primary and nonsuppressible hypersecretion of aldosterone is an increasingly recognized, but still underdiagnosed, cause of hypertension. Our objective is to determine the evolution features of primary aldosteronism (PA) patients.Patients and Methods: Retrospective study of 17 patients with PA confirmed biochemically and histologically when operated.Results: The mean age was 41.9 ± 9.3 years at PA diagnosis, and ...