Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Testosterone treatment can improve symptoms in hypogonadal men with depression. It is also known to induce aggressive behaviour hypomania and even mania. When patients with bipolar disorder and hypogonadism present with manic symptoms it is particularly difficult to decide whether testosterone should be discontinued or not during manic phase of the illness.Case: A 39 years old Caucasian man was diagnosed with isolated hypogonadotropic hypog...

Introduction: Heparin induced thrombocytopenia (HIT), a complication of heparin therapy, is a reaction that is triggered by the immune system in response to heparin and causes thrombocytopenia. In this report, we describe an unusual case of HIT induced bilateral adrenal haemorrhage with resultant hypoadrenalism.Case: A 60-year-old Caucasian man was admitted with ascending cholangitis secondary to gallstone and underwent an emergency laparoscopic cholecys...