Endocrine and Diabetes Unit
Founder of the unit:
Professor Dr. Magdy Abdel Moneim El-Zeini in November 1994.
- The Endocrine and Diabetes Unit serves cases coming from the northeastern Delta region of the Arab Republic of Egypt. Its first headquarters was Mansoura University Hospital. The unit’s activity, its outpatient clinic, and its internal department were transferred to the University Children’s Hospital in Mansoura, and that was in 1998 AD.
- The unit serves about 180 diabetic cases annually and also serves about 700 endocrine cases annually. The number of cases since the beginning of the unit’s inception until now is 8,571 cases, including 1,600 cases of people with diabetes and 6,971 An endocrine condition.
The Unit services:
- Early diagnosis and treatment of endocrine disorders: (thyroid disorders, parathyroid disorders, suprarenal disorders, growth assessment and gonadal dysfunction, and pituitary gland disorders).
- Diagnosis and treatment of growth and puberty disorders.
- Treating obesity in children and adolescents.
- Study of body composition, bone mineral density by DXA scan
- Body Composition Study, by BIA.
- In the field of diabetes (management of type 1 DM, type 2 DM, monogenic diabetes, management of diabetes complications, follow-up of diabetes patients, screening programs for families of diabetics, nutritional evaluation of diabetic conditions, screening of diabetic patients for co-morbidities )
Outpatient clinics:
• Diabetes Clinic (Saturday morning - Room 1).
• Endocrinology Clinic following up on cases (Monday - morning - Clinic 1) .
• Endocrinology Clinic new cases (Tuesday - morning - clinic 8) .
Unit headquarters:
Mansoura University - University Children's Hospital (Outpatient Clinics Building - Second Floor).
