ABSTRACT Objective To describe the prevalence, clinical characteristics and outcome of adrenal lesions in long-term follow-up of Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) patients. Subjects and methods We retrospectively studied sixteen patients from six families of individuals with MEN1. Adrenal involvement was evaluated using clinical, biochemical and imaging data. Results Adrenal lesions were identified in nine of sixteen (56.3%) patients: seven women and two men (mean age: 52.2 years). Adrenal involvement was detected at MEN1 diagnosis in more than half […]

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed at identifing mutations in two Chinese genealogies with MEN1. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Three members of two Chinese families with MEN1 were enrolled in this study, and all of the coding regions and adjacent sequences of the MEN1 gene were amplified and sequenced. RESULTS: A recurrent mutation of heterozygous change T>A at IVS 4+1 was found in family I, and a novel insGAGGTGG mutation (c.703-709dup7bp) resulted in a frameshift (p.A237Gfsx13) in family II. CONCLUSION: We are able […]

Carney Complex (CNC) and Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) are forms of multiple endocrine neoplasia of dominant autosomal inheritance. Diagnosis of CNC occurs when two major criteria (lentiginoses, primary pigmented nodular adrenocortical disease, cardiac and cutaneous myxomas, acromegaly, testicular neoplasias, thyroid cancer) are observed and/or a major criterion associated with a supplementary criterion (affected relative, PRKAR1A gene mutation) occurs. On the other hand, diagnosis for MEN1 occurs through detection of two or more tumors located at the pituitary gland, […]

Our objective is to evaluate and describe one family with six cases of familial isolated primary hyperparathyroidism (HFI), a rare hereditable disorder with an autossomal dominant mode of inheritance. It is characterized by a primary hyperparathyroidism without association with other endocrine tumors or diseases. The HFI diagnosis relied on the demonstration of hypercalcemia, inappropriately high levels of parathyroid hormone, and parathyroid adenomas, plus exclusion of NEM 1/2a and HPT/TM syndrome in this family. We analyzed the description of the first […]

Multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN) syndromes include types 1 (MEN 1) and 2 (MEN 2), von Hippel-Lindau syndrome, neurofibromatosis type 1 and Carney complex. These are complex genetic syndromes caused by activation or inactivation of different types of genes known to be involved in the regulation of cell proliferation. In this review we will discuss the clinical manifestations and management of the MEN 1 syndrome as well as the genetic screening of potential MEN 1 gene carriers. MEN 1 is a […]