Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Graves’ disease is the commonest cause of thyrotoxicosis. If left untreated myriad of complications, chief among which are cardiac related morbidity and mortality might supervene.Case presentation: A 31-year-old man presented to the endocrine clinic of LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, Nigeria 19 months ago with features suggestive of hyperthyroidism and a diagnosis of thyrotoxicosis secondary to Graves’ disease was made. He wa...

Introduction: Pituitary adenomas are not uncommon presentations in our clinical practice but the challenge with management becomes more daunting as the size of the tumour gets bigger as seen in this woman we present herein with a macroadenoma. The combination of factors militating against accessing the best of health care available is unconnected with the usual problems affecting health care delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa, including out-of-pocket payments for health services a...

Introduction: Paget’s disease of the bone is a rare endocrine disease especially among Africans and Asians. Hence the detection of a case in a middle-aged Nigerian is of interest.Case presentation: A 62-year-old Nigerian man in apparent good health was found to have markedly elevated alkaline phosphatase (ALP) of 1179 U/l during a routine medical check-up. He had no history suggestive of Paget’s disease of the bone and also had no known family ...

Introduction: Graves’ disease is the commonest cause of thyrotoxicosis; and is usually responsive to radio-iodine therapy. In Nigeria, radio-iodine therapy is becoming a common and cost effective option for treatment of thyrotoxicosis; with the less likelihood of most of the complications associated with thyroidectomy.Case presentation: A 49-year-old Nigerian lady, presented to the endocrinology clinic, at LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, 8 year...

Introduction: Hypoglycaemia is a common and serious complication of diabetes treatment especially in patients who do not have knowledge of the condition and personal glucose metres. Patients with very good drug compliance are at greater risk of developing hypoglycaemia. Sometimes hypoglycaemia among patients on insulin therapy could be symptomatic or asymptomatic. The present study is aimed at measuring the determinants and predictors of hypog...

Background: Hypoglycaemia is a life-threatening condition commonly encountered in emergency department (ED), mainly among individuals with diabetes on insulin or oral hypoglycaemic agents (OHA). Hypoglycaemia in non-diabetic individuals is not a common condition and its often a diagnostic challenge for clinicians especially when presented in an unusual way. Although it does not seem to be a cardiac emergency feature, various electrocardiograph...

Introduction: Hypoglycaemia is a common and serious complication of diabetes treatment especially in patients who do not have knowledge of the condition and personal glucose metres. Patients with very good drug compliance are at greater risk of developing hypoglycaemia. Sometimes hypoglycaemia among patients on insulin therapy could be symptomatic or asymptomatic. The present study is aimed at measuring the determinants and predictors of hypog...

Background: Hypoglycaemia is a life-threatening condition commonly encountered in emergency department (ED), mainly among individuals with diabetes on insulin or oral hypoglycaemic agents (OHA). Hypoglycaemia in non-diabetic individuals is not a common condition and its often a diagnostic challenge for clinicians especially when presented in an unusual way. Although it does not seem to be a cardiac emergency feature, various electrocardiograph...

Background: Premature ejaculation (PE) is believed to be one of the most common male sexual disorders across all age groups. However its prevalence and risk factors has been rarely investigated among Nigerians. Hence, the study determined the prevalence and risk factors for erectile dysfunction (ED) especially PE among this populace.Subjects and methods: This cross-sectional survey was conducted on seventy-three (73) males aged 18-75years who were sexual...

Background: Both obesity and presence of certain patterns of lipid abnormalities has consistently been identified as a strong determinants of cardiovascular health. In resource limited populations, it is important to ascertain methods of reducing resources utilisation by identifying simple measures to cardiovascular risk. Considering the relative ease of measuring anthropometries (BMI, waist circumference-WC, and waist-hip ratio-WHR) data, we sought to determine if any measure...