Endocrine Abstracts

Hirata syndrome is a rare cause of spontaneous hypoglycaemia, more prevalent in Japanese population, very infrequent in Caucasian patients. It has been described that it can be triggered by medication with sulfhydryl compounds or α-lipoic acid. A 73-year-old male patient was sent to the Endocrinology Division in December 2015 because he had been presenting with episodes of sweating, palpitations and feeling hungry for 6 months; these symptoms improved when he ate carbohyd...

Introduction: Autoimmune thyroid diseases, including Graves’ disease (GD) and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT), are complex diseases combining genetic susceptibility and environmental encounters leading to the breakdown of immune tolerance. The relationship between thyroid cancer (TC) and HT has been proven (Guarino et al. 2010), and the antibody specific association has been demonstrated (Azizi et al. 2014). Overexpression of claudin-1 appears to be an...

IntroductionKleine-Levin syndrome, also called recurrent hypersomnia is a rare sleep disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of severe hypersomnia associated with cognitive and behavioral disturbances such as confusion, derealization, apathy, compulsive eating and hypersexuality. Menstrual-related hypersomnia is classified as a subtype of syndrome Levin-Kleine consisting of recurrent hypersomnia that is temporally linked with menses.<p class="ab...