Endocrinology
Endocrinology treats all diseases affecting hormones. Hormonal disorders involve the endocrine glands (thyroid, parathyroid, pituitary, adrenal, pancreas, etc …) or endocrine secretions of various tissues or organs. All medical aspects of endocrine and metabolic diseases and diabetes are supported at the Polyclinique Centre-Ville, in particular:
Thyroid Diseases:
- Thyroid nodule and goiter, on-site thyroid ultrasound
- Hyperthyroidism (Graves’ disease …)
- Hypothyroidism (Hashimoto’s disease …)
- Thyroiditis
- Thyroid Cancers
Diabetes mellitus and metabolic diseases:
- Type 1 diabetes (Insulin-dependent diabetes), intensive insulin therapy and insulin pump therapy. Access to a Diabetes Nurse Educator
- Type 2 diabetes (non-insulin dependent diabetes)
- Other diabetes mellitus
- Dyslipidemia
Parathyroid Diseases:
- Osteoporosis
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Hypoparathyroidism
- Vitamin D deficiency
Pituitary gland Diseases:
- Pituitary Adenoma: non-secreting pituitary adenomas, acromegaly, Cushing’s disease, prolactinoma (prolactin adenoma) …
- Craniopharyngioma and all cystic lesions or tumor of the pituitary region (meningioma, cyst of the Rathke’s pouch …)
- Hyperprolactinemia
- Inflammatory lesions of the pituitary gland (hypophysitis, sarcoidosis …)
- Empty sella turcica, pituitary apoplexy
- Congenital or acquired pituitary deficits
- Diabetes insipidus
Reproductive endocrinology:
- Primary and secondary amenorrhea
- Polycystic ovary syndrome
- Turner’s syndrome, gonadal dysgenesis
- Primary ovarian failure and early menopause
- Galactorrhea
- hypogonadism Hypogonadism
Male Endocrinology, andrology:
- Primitive gonadal deficiency (testicular failure) or secondary (gonadotropin deficiency, Kallmann’s syndrome, hypogonadotropic hypogonadism)
- Klinefelter’s syndrome
Our Specialists
Dr. Leboeuf received her medical degree from McGill University. She then completed her training in internal medicine and endocrinology at the University of Sherbrooke. In order to obtain her expertise in thyroid cancer, she undertook additional training at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York for 2 years. She then made several clinical and basic researches. During nearly 3 three years she worked as an endocrinologist at this institution, treating patients with thyroid cancer and doing research on refractory cancers. Since September 2010, she is an assistant professor at the University of Montreal and works as an endocrinologist specialized in thyroid cancer at the CHUM, in the endocrinology department and also at the Polyclinique Centre-Ville.
Dr. Ott-Braschi obtained her degree in endocrinology at the University of Nantes (France). She completed her training in lipid metabolism and atherosclerosis with a clinical training and a PhD at the University of Paris VII (France), then a research fellowship at the Ottawa Heart Institute. After several years of clinical work and research activity at the University of Ottawa, she joined the endocrinology department of the CHUM in 2010. She is currently an associate professor at University of Montreal and works as an endocrinologist specialized in lipid metabolism and type 1 diabetes at the endocrinology division of the CHUM, at the IRCM and at the Polyclinique du Centre-Ville.