Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: There is limited literature on autoimmune haematological disorders (AIHD) such as autoimmune thrombocytopenia (ITP), autoimmune haemolytic anaemia, and autoimmune neutropenia (AN) in Turner syndrome (TS) although autoimmune disorders are more common in TS.Methodology: Retrospective analysis of a clinic database, to identify patients with AIHD out of all the patients followed up in a specialised TS clinic. (...

Introduction: Refractory hypothyroidism is associated with significantly increased morbidity and healthcare costs. During the evaluation of refractory disease, a thyroxine absorption test is frequently performed using different protocols. We assessed the usefulness of the supervised rapid thyroxine absorption test in a low-resource setting and formulated a useful model to determine the expected FT4 rise in hypothyroid patients without known malabsorption.<p class="abstext"...

Introduction: Hypertension is common in patients with Turner Syndrome (TS), and they appear to have an increased predisposition with various proposed disease related factors; sex hormone imbalance, aortopathy, increased activation of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, insulin resistance, growth hormone deficiency/resistance, adverse imprinting during fetal life and renal malformations. Despite high susceptibility and unique challenges in managing hypertension in this gr...