Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Ganglioneuroma is a rare benign tumour arising from neural crest sympathogonia. It is usually asymptomatic and non functional. An association between ganglioeneuroma and genetic or autoimmune diseases such as Addison’s disease or Mediterranean fever has never been described.Case description: We report the case of a 24-year-old woman presenting with paroxysmal abdominal pain with loss of weight and no fever. Physical examination along w...

Introduction: Subclinical Cushing’s syndrome refers to autonomous cortisol secretion in patients who do not have the typical signs and symptoms of hypercortisolism. This study was undertaken to describe clinical, biological and radiological features of this disease and to evaluate the clinical outcome after surgical and medical treatment.Methods: Retrospective study conducted over a period of 12 years and including 17 patients hospitalised in our de...

IntroductionSevere hypertriglyceridemia (sHTG) (plasma triglycerides b 10 g/l) is a rare but pernicious and understudied condition.ObjectiveOur objective was to evaluate the etiology, characteristics, and complications of sHTG.MethodsIt’s a retrospective study including 10 patients with (sHTG) diagnosed between 1998 and 2020, at the department of endocri...