Endocrine Abstracts

Case history: A 44-year-old gentleman presented to A&E with a 2-week history of fevers and rigors. He gave a background history of hypertension. He was noted to have new onset atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response, and a new diagnosis of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) was made on echocardiography. A vegetation identified on the mitral valve led to an unexpected diagnosis of infective endocarditis. Antibiotic treatment for infective endocarditi...

We present a family of a 45-year-old patient who presented to hospital acutely unwell with metastatic paragangliomas. Unfortunately due to rapidity of his presentation, no genetic testing was performed. He was found to have 5 cm right carotid body tumour. His urine collections confirmed raised (seven times normal) 24 h urine metanephrines 24.55 μmol (normal <3.47 μmol). Shortly after the initial diagnosis he was found to have extensive vertebral body metastases i...