Endocrine Abstracts

A 41 year old gentleman presented with collapse and vomiting for one week was found to be hyponatraemic with sodium of 103. He was treated with a sodium chloride 0.9% over 100 ml/hour and once sodium was increased to 118 in less than 24 hours. He was deescalated from intensive care on day3. He had developed severe ataxia, slow speech and was highly emotional. He was previously high functioning, maintaining a job and independent. It had transpired that he had been drinking 18 c...

Background: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2D) patients are at very high risk to have eye complications. Purpose of the study was to determine the prevalence of diabetes eye complications (DEC) and its correlation with glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in diabetes population attending community clinics across India.Methods: A total of 1547 T2D patients (935 males and 612 females) EMR records were retrospectively analyzed. For DEC correlation with GFR, patient...

Levothyroxine, the standard therapy for hypothyroidism, is usually well tolerated and very few cases of true allergy to levothyroxine have been reported to date. In these cases mechanisms have not been conclusively identified but have been hypothesized to be allergies to excipients. Here we report a rare occurrence of levothyroxine allergy and the effectiveness of desensitization. A 56-year-old lady with no previous history of allergies required a total thyroidectomy for Grave...