Endocrine Abstracts

Case History: A 16 yr old patient presented to us concerned about her short statue. Her father and mother were at the 9th centile and her sister was at the 25th centile in adult life. She was otherwise well having gone through a normal puberty in her early teens and was currently on the oral contraceptive pill having regular periods. On examination she did display some features of Turner’s syndrome; short stature, short neck and cubitus valgus deformity. Cytogenetic analy...

Two patients presented to us with polyuria and polydipsia.Case 1– A 34 year old gentleman was referred with polyuria, polydipsia, diffuse headaches and poor sleep. Initial plasma and urine osmolality were 306 and 272 milliosmol/kg respectively. Water deprivation test demonstrated normal concentrating ability. Starting urinary osmolality was 788 milliosmol/kg, rising to 877 milliosmol/kg. MRI pituitary was normal. Hypertonic saline infusion test prod...

Background: Prolactin (PRL) secreting pituitary tumours are the most frequent causes of hyperprolactinaemia in clinical practice.Case: A 78-year old man presented with gradual visual deterioration over two years particularly affecting left eye and getting progressively worse. Formal visual field testing suggested grossly constricted field defect in left eye and superior temporal field defect in right eye. Examination showed no features of acromegaly. Sta...

Introduction: With the increased use of imaging modalities, detection of Adrenal Incidentaloma (AI) has become common.Aim: We evaluated management of patients with AI to improve service delivery.Method: Patients with AI referred to our endocrinology outpatient service (2006–2019). Data was collected from electronic case records and radiology reporting system. Demography, biochemical investigations, time interval between two sc...