Endocrine Abstracts

74 year old female presented in ED with history of fall 2 weeks ago and worsening severe back pain, unable to weight bear. She has background history of hypertension, epilepsy and chronic back pain. She had distal radial fracture in 2016, and Dexa scan at that time showed osteopenia with T-score of −1.8, but she was not receiving conventional osteoporosis treatment (e.g., bisphosphonates), hormone replacement therapy, or using natural or synthetic steroids. Furthermore, ...

A 43 year old female experienced sudden sever back pain after lifting her baby’s buggy in January 2014. In October 2013, she had an emergency caesarean section to deliver her baby. This was performed for a prolonged first stage of labour with foetal distress. She breast fed her baby for 16 weeks. Her baby was conceived in early 2013 on the first attempt using donor egg and sperm. Her husband was found to have azoospermia. They therefore approached a Fertility Clinic and s...

Primary hyperparathyroidism (P-HPT) is one of the most common of all endocrine disorders. 80 to 85% of cases are due to parathyroid adenomas while hyperplasia accounts for 10% to 15% and carcinoma less than 1%, of cases.1 Its very rare for parathyroid adenoma to present with clinically severe hypercalcaemia or a ‘parathyroid crisis’. There are some existing case reports.2,3 We report a case of a 67 year old woman who presented with severe irrita...