Endocrine Abstracts

A 36-year-old lady presented at 26-weeks gestation with symptoms of palpitations, anxiety, tremors, and breathlessness. She had received the 1st dose of the mRNA vaccine (Pfizer) for Covid-19 a month prior and her symptoms started a couple of weeks after the vaccine. She was a gravida 4 para 2 with gestational diabetes diagnosed during previous pregnancies and also early on in the current pregnancy requiring insulin treatment maintaining excellent antenatal glycaemic control. ...

Background/Aim: Radioactive-iodine (RAI) therapy aims to cure hyperthyroidism, with some International authorities recommending a sufficient RAI dose to render patients hypothyroid. An audit on low dose RAI (<400 MBq) at our University Hospital in 2014 suggested above national average rates of Thyrotoxicosis relapse (24%) and lower rates of hypothyroidism (41%) 6-months post RAI. From 2015, a fixed dose (555 MBq) RAI was utilised and we present the audit outcomes using thi...

Background: Amongst hospitalised patients, hyponatraemia is the commonest electrolyte abnormality with reported prevalence of about 25%. Its association with mortality, morbidity and increased length of stay is well recognised, including adverse fracture risk and falls with mild hyponatraemia in elderly. We audited the management of hyponatraemia in inpatients in a University hospital setting.Methods: Over a 3-month period, amongst all in-patients, we id...