Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: A significant number of patients are intolerant of anti-thyroid drugs (ATD) and thyroidectomy remains the only treatment option available to patients who decline radioiodine as definitive therapy. As patients with poorly controlled thyrotoxicosis are at risk of developing thyroid storm, optimal pre-operative control of hyperthyroidism is essential. Rapid thyroid blockade (RTB) with the contrast agents sodium ipodate and iopanoic acid were attractive treatment opt...

W Arlt, School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Centre for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK AbstractProf. Wiebke Arlt received her undergraduate medical training at the University of Cologne in Germany. She obtained her MD degree in 1993 with distinction and trained in General Medicine and Endocrinology and Diabetes at the University Hospital Würzburg under th...

W Wiersinga, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands AbstractWilmar M Wiersinga obtained his MD in Amsterdam in 1969 and his Board Certification in Internal Medicine in 1976. He obtained his PhD cum laude in 1979 at the University of Amsterdam on the thesis ‘The peripheral conversion of T4 into T3 and reverse T3’. Thereafter he spent two years as a research fellow at the UCLA with professors David...

Bert W O’MalleyBert W O’Malley, MD is the Tom Thompson Distinguished Service Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Baylor College of Medicine. A native of Pittsburgh, he has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh (1959) and an MD from their School of Medicine (1963). He completed his residency at Duke University and spent four years at the National Institute of Health followed by four years serving as the Luscious B...

Pituitary carcinomas are extremely rare accounting for only 0.1%–0.2% of all pituitary tumours. The diagnosis is primarily dependent on aggressive imaging characteristics and high tumour mitotic activity on histology. A 47 year old gentleman with Type 1 Diabetes presented with an apparent non-functioning pituitary macro adenoma which was resected transsphenoidally and followed by EBRT. Initial histology was negative for ACTH. He presented 2 years later with florid Cushing...

Introduction: The first-line investigation of thyroid nodules is ultrasonography. Since the introduction of fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) in the last 2 decades, the diagnostic accuracy of thyroid malignancy has massively improved. This study aims to examine the sensitivities of ultrasonography and FNAC respectively, evaluating our centre’s practice.Methods: Retrospective data were collected from ultrasound scan and FNAC reports of patients ...

Introduction: Ultrasonography is safe, fast and radiation-free. This audit, based on the American Thyroid Association (ATA) Management Guidelines (revised in 2009), aims to establish if our regional unit meets the recommended standards of using ultrasonography to aid the management of thyroid malignancy and to make further suggestions to improve practice.Methodology: Retrospective data were collected from ultrasound scan reports of patients who had thyro...

Introduction: Recent studies have shown that different ultrasound features of a thyroid nodule are associated with high probability of different types of malignancy. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the sensitivities of each of the identified ultrasound features and to determine their corresponding carcinoma types that they are sensitive to.Methods: Retrospective data from January 2010 to October 2013 were collected in a regional thyroid unit in ...

W F Young Jr, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA AbstractProf. William Young is Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Vice-Chair of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, and Nutrition. He received his MD degree from Michigan State University. Prof. Young trained in endocrinology and metabolism at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. He has been a member of the staff at Mayo ...

Pheochromocytoma is a rare catecholamine-secreting tumor. It is potentially curable but can cause life-threatening hypertension or cardiac arrhythmias. We report a 58- years- old woman with no significant past medical history who was admitted through the emergency department with complaints of chest pain, palpitation, and nausea. She reported six months history of episodic palpitation and throbbing headaches, sometimes associated with light-headedness and dizziness. Hence, she...