Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Thyroid storm is a major life-threatening condition in a patient of thyrotoxicosis which can precipitate the cardiovascular morbidity in forms of tachycardia, arrythmia and congestive heart failure. It can be precipitated by acute coronary syndrome. Most literatures have reported acute coronary syndromes during the presentation itself but we describe an unique case where the diagnosis was possible after the resolution of the thyroid storm.C...

Background: Pachydermoperiostosis (primary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy, PHO) is a rare genetic disease characterised by clinical signs and symptoms which may overlap with acromegaly (pachydermia, hyperhidrosis and enlargement of hands and feet). In the majority of cases, the disease is due to biallelic loss-of-function variants in either of two genes, SLCO2A1 and HPGD playing an important role in prostaglandin metabolism. Although PHO patients are often ref...