Endocrine Abstracts

27-year-old male presented to the outpatient adult Endocrine team with Classical Salt wasting CAH due to 21 -Hydroxylase Deficiency. He has 659 A/C G splice mutation. There was no prior family history of CAH. The diagnosis was made at birth and he was commenced on hydrocortisone and Fludrocortisone. Further confirmatory tests were done at the age of one month. He was regularly followed up in the pediatric endocrine clinic. There have always been issues with compliance. He had ...

70yrs male was referred to endocrinology due to an abnormal blood test showing hypogonadotropic hypogonadism. Initial investigations were done due to bilateral gynecomastia worsening over 20 years, by the breast team. He did not go through puberty as a child and was given a testosterone injection at the age of 12yrs for a year. This was discontinued due to sexual arousal since then he did not have any further endocrine follow-ups. He had symptoms of tiredness, reduce libido, a...

Introduction: Immobilization hypercalcemia (IH) is more common in children and adolescent due to increased rate of bone turnover and it usually develop 4–6 weeks post trauma but it can begin as early as 2 weeks and as late as six months. We report a patient who developed severer hypercalcemia after sustaining multiple fractures and immobilization.CaseA 24-year-old man was admitted for neurorehabilitation after road traffic acc...