Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The fetus is the most vulnerable to severe iodine deficiency and hypothyroidism during pregnancy. Severe iodine deficiency and hypothyroidism during pregnancy have long been known to be associated with neurologic deficits and mental retardation The effects of mild iodine deficiency and subclinical hypothyroidism are poorly known. The present study assesses the association between thyroid hormones and urinary iodine concentration (UIC) in healthy pregnant women an...

Background: There aren’t published randomized studies comparing the clinical impact of degludec and Glragina U300 in the treatment of type 1 diabetes patients. (T1DP)Objective: To compare efficacy and safety of the new long acting analogues Glargine U 300 and Degludec in 300 Type1 diabetes patients treated with basal/bolus treatment.(BBT)Material and methods: Randomized control study 1.1 in 300 T1DP treated with BBT with glarg...

Introduction and aims: Autophagy is an essential process for cell homeostasis that implies recycling and degradation of damaged organelles and long-lived proteins. It is induced during caloric restriction (in order to obtain energy) or other stress-inducing conditions. Autophagy is initiated by autophagosome formation, a double-membrane vesicle which engulfs cellular components and delivers them for degradation by fusing with lysosomes. Thus, proper autophagy regulation favour...

Metabolic-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) is a growing cause of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but the molecular mechanisms associated with the pathological progression from MAFLD to HCC are still to be fully elucidated. The genomic and transcriptomic profile of HCC samples have been widely described; however, the proteomic landscape of MAFLD-derived HCC samples is mostly unknown. Here, we sought to perform the first quantitative proteomic analysis of HCC samples from ...

Introduction: Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism is the cause of sexual deficiency, sometimes difficult to differentiate from constitutional growth delay (CGD).Clinical case: A 19-year-old male consulting endocrinology for delayed puberty. Pointed to, at 13 years of age, as having had CGD. His medical report include a viral meningitis at 8 years of age and anosmia since 3 years of age. He expressed lack of sexual desire and concern about the size of his genit...

Background: Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder, of which 21-hydroxylase deficiency (21OHD) is the most frequent form. 11 beta-hydroxylase deficiency (11bOHD) is the second most common type of CAH. This pathology results from inactivating mutations in CYP11B1 gene.Case presentation: We describe a case of a 48-year-old woman with 11bOHD, presented with hypokalemia hypertension, early adrenarche and mild vir...

Introduction: Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a rare systemic disease. Diabetes insipidus is the most frequent endocrine alteration and occurs mostly after diagnosis. Others are hypogonadism, growth hormone deficiency (GHD) and alterations in glucose metabolism.Clinical case: A 61-year-old smoker, diagnosed with LCH 9 years ago with pulmonary and hepatic involvement, without treatment, who consulted for asthenia, unquantifiable polyuria, polydipsi...

Background: Gestational diabetes (GD) prevalence is increasing as the obesity epidemic continues. Its management involves hospital visits every 1–2 weeks. In 2016 our team developed a web-based telemedicine platform (SineDie©). This tool operated as a clinical decision support system designed to manage the treatment of patients with GD. SineDie© automatically prescribed diet recommendations and identified the necessity of insulin treatment....

A growing number of studies suggest that extracellular fragments derived from plasma membrane receptors can play relevant functional roles in the development and progression of certain tumoral pathologies which might, therefore, serve as novel tools in the diagnostic and prognostic of such pathologies. In this scenario, the truncated somatostatin receptor sst5TMD4, which is overexpressed in various endocrine-related cancers (i.e. breast, prostate, neuroendocrine, liver and pit...

Introduction: Fetal goiter is an infrequent and potentially life-threating condition derived from either fetal hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism. TSH-receptor stimulating antibodies (TSH-R-ABs) can cross the placenta and induce fetal hyperthyroidism and goiter. We describe a rare case of TSH-R-ABs-induced hyperthyroidism in a woman with autoimmune hypothyroidism (AH) without previous hyperthyroidism.Case Report: A 28 years old pregnant woman under treatm...