Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Therapeutic education is the cornerstone of foot care for the diabetic patient. The purpose of this work was to evaluate the satisfaction of patients who have benefited from diabetic foot education sessions.Methods: This is a prospective study involving 151 patients with risky feet who benefited from the diabetic foot awareness and education day in our service during the following period (January 2018 to December 2018). For this work, we us...

Goal: Diabetes is a common condition, affecting the young and the elderly, which can lead to acute accidents such as ketoacidosis, diabetic ketosis, hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia with various decompensation factors, which may be of cardiac origin, neurological or infectious. The objective of the study was to clarify the epidemiological and clinical profile of diabetic patients, to establish the reasons for urgent consultations in diabetic patients.Metho...

Introduction: Diabetes is considered by some to be a burden, it is common to meet diabetic Muslims who wish to observe the fast of the month of Ramadan. The objective of our work was to observe the effect of Ramadan fasting on clinical and metabolic parameters in type 2 diabetics.Patients and methods: Prospective study including 160 diabetic patients, within the Endocrinology department from May to August 2018. The participants benefited from a pre (T0),...

Introduction: Cigarette smoking is a modifiable cardiovascular risk factor, inducing and aggravating insulin resistance and metabolic disorders, especially in patients with type 2 diabetes (DT2). Our objective was to study the prevalence of the different components of the metabolic syndrome in patients with comparing with a group of non-smoking diabetics.Patients and methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted in the Diabetology, Endocrinology an...

Introduction: Diabetic foot problems are generally poorly understood by patients, yet they represent a major health problem. The aim of this study was to assess diabetes patients’ knowledge of preventive foot care before and after a diabetic foot day.Patients and methods: It was a prospective and descriptive study conducted in the service from January to December 2018, including 108 type 2 or type 1 diabetic patients, at risk of podiatry grade 1, 2 ...

Introduction: Pituitary Stalk Interruption Syndrome (PSIS) is a distinct and rare clinical entity responsible for isolated or combined anterior pituitary insufficiency. The objective of this work is to describe the clinical, hormonal and radiological aspects of PSIS.Patients and methods: Observational descriptive study of the files of 5 patients including 4 cases of congenital PSIS and one acquired, followed in the endocrinology and diabetology departmen...

Introduction: Thyroid disorders are quite common during pregnancy complicated by diabetes mellitus.Objective: The aim of our study was to detect thyroid disorders in a group of diabetic pregnant women.Patients and methods: Rétrospective study involving 243 pregnant women with diabetes followed in consultation or hospitalized in Endocrinology and Diabetology department of Ibn Rochd University Hospital of Casablanca, over a peri...

Introduction: Grave’ disease is associated with extra thyroid auto-thyroid manifestations such as basal ophthalmopathy and/or. We report the case of two patients presenting with extrathyroid manifestations of the basic illness hospitalized at the department of diabetic endocrinology and metabolic diseases of Ibn Rochd University Hospital of Casablanca.Case 1: This is a patient aged 53 years, chronic smoking at 20 years, for low weight disease since ...

Background: The discovery of a thyroid nodule is a problem in thyroid cancer screening. Thus, the analysis of the criteria of malignancy remains the first step of study of a thyroid nodule. The objective of our study was the correlation between the clinical, ultrasonographic and cytologic malignancy criteria and the anatomopathological study results of the operative specimen.Materials and methods: For this we conducted an analytical cross-sectional study...

Introduction: Atypia of undetermined significance (AUS) or follicular lesion of undetermined significance (FLUS) of Bethesda system for reporting thyroid cytopathology has emerged as most controversial category due to its heterogeneity and inconsistent usage. Initially associated risk of malignancy was estimated to be about 5–15%, but eventually different results have been obtained across institutions due to variable follow-ups and interpretation. The objective of this st...