Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: We hypothesised that children with type 1 diabetes would have more hyperglycaemia following a British as compared to a European breakfast.Methods: Children were asked to take a continental breakfast and a typical British breakfast cereal on separate days. Pre breakfast glucometer readings were documented and then regular readings until lunchtime. The meals were prescribed by a dietitian; they were approximately carbohydrate matched but of d...

A 57-year-old female who was previously healthy was admitted to hospital with a 2-week history of abdominal pain. On admission, she was tachycardic, tachypnoeic, hypotensive, and had abdominal tenderness. Her initial investigations revealed a neutrophilia with her biochemistry showing hyponatraemia (sodium of 124 mmol/l (135–145)) and normokalaemia (potassium of 4.7 mmol/l (3.5–5.5)). She had an urgent abdominal CT scan which showed evidence of a tubo-ovarian abscess...