Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Early diagnosis and surveillance of Graves’ Orbitopathy (GO) is essential to prevent severe, sight-threatening complications and long-term disability; therefore, it is highly desirable to identify risk factors and early predictors of severe disease. GO is clinically assessed using the Clinical Activity Score (CAS) and the EUGOGO Severity Scale (ESS), which are subjective, qualitative tests that are used to evaluate the activity and severity at the anterior orb...

Case History: A 47 year-old female was referred to the Endocrine Bone Unit with worsening back, rib and leg pain associated with significantly reduced mobility. In the preceding year, she had repeatedly presented to healthcare providers with no clear neurological deficit, no fractures identified on X-Ray and normal MRI appearances of the whole spine. Aside from well-controlled asthma and gestational diabetes, she had no significant past medical, medication, social or family hi...

Background: Absence of effective clinical indicators for thyroid cancer, which has an excellent prognosis, means community ultrasounds (US) can be important in identifying risk. Where cytology is definitive it should be reviewed by appropriate MDT specialists. This study aimed to examine the outcomes from two-week-wait (2WW) referrals.Methods: To achieve these aims, we retrospectively reviewed 293 patients referred on th...