Endocrine Abstracts

A 76-year-old man with recent history of diet control diabetes and hypertension presented to his GP with change in his voice and biochemical T3 toxicosis. He had no further assessment and received no treatment. Few months later he presented with right side goitre and found to have right vocal cord palsy and medullary thyroid cancer and hyperthyroidism. He had evidence of local nodal and distant metastases. Soon after biochemical euthyroidism he underwent total thyro...

Introduction: Cinacalcet acts at the calcium-sensing receptors on parathyroid cells to increase the sensitivity to circulating calcium concentrations. Studies have shown that this treatment is an effective means of managing hypercalcaemia in primary hyperparathyroidism.Aims: The aim of this study was to determine the outcomes of patients who had received cinacalcet for at least 3 months for primary hyperparathyroidism.Methods: We i...