Refractory Graves' Disease in an Adolescent Successfully Treated With Cholestyramine and Subsequent Thyroidectomy.

Graves' disease is the most common form of hyperthyroidism in children and adolescents. There are three primary lines of treatment for Graves' disease: antithyroid drugs (ATDs), thyroidectomy, and radioactive iodine. Ideally, patients should be rendered euthyroid before surgery to minimize complications.

Steroid induced hypertriglyceridemia in pregnant waman with immune thrombocytopenia - case report.

Background: Hypertriglyceridemia is a medical condition defined as fasting triglyceride level more than 150 mg/dl. It could be due to either familial or acquired cause as in obesity, metabolic syndrome, diabetes mellitus type 2, alcohol consumption, decrease exercise or drug affects. Drugs such as corticosteroids rarely induced hypertriglyceridemia, for that we are reporting this case.

Pseudoacromegaly Associated with Non-Functioning Pituitary Adenoma.

Unlabelled: Acromegaly is characterized by excess skin and soft tissue growth due to increased growth hormone (GH) levels. Patients with similar physical findings but without somatotroph axis abnormalities are considered to have pseudoacromegaly. The list of pseudoacromegaly differential diagnoses is long.