Endocrine Abstracts

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...

Hereditable forms account for 30–40% of pheochromocytomas (pheo). The role of germ-line mutation of VHL, RET, SDHB, SDHD gene has been largely elucidated. However, genotyping a group of 172 sporadic or familial pheo, we have characterize five unrelated probands with familial pheo without any sequence variants of RET (7 exons), or of the entire coding sequence of VHL, SDHB, SDHC or SDHD.The proband #1 had a bilateral pheo when 32 and a local recurren...