Endocrine Abstracts

Heterophilic antibodies are human immunoglobulins with antigenic determinants directed against non-human species. These antibodies can interfere with the measurement of analytes in routine clinical laboratories, in particular in 2-site immunoassays. Skybio heterophilic blocking tubes-50 (HBT-50) are one way of overcoming this interference but, it has been reported (Sturgeon and Viljoen, Annals Clin Biochem, 2011, 48, 418), some samples may require two treatments to completely ...

We report a rare case of 37 years female of Greek and Irish extraction with a history of thalassemia trait, who presented with generalised weakness and severe loin and pelvic pain 9 days post vaginal hysterectomy and 3 days after hospital discharge. After readmission, she developed mild pyrexia (37.5°C), hypotension, mild hyponatraemia with plasma sodium which fell from 138 to 131 mM and early signs of acute respiratory distress syndrome. A Short Synacthen test was perfor...