Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Sarcoidosis is a multisystem noncaseating granulomatous disease with prevalence of 40/100 000. One percent of patients with sarcoidosis have isolated neurosarcoidosis, few cases involve the hypothalamus/pituitary (65 reported cases from 2002 to 2014). We present a case of hypothalamic-pituitary sarcoidosis with hypothermia (one case reported between 2002 and 2014), leptomeningitis, diabetes insipidus and pan-hypopituitarism.Case report: Fam...

Introduction: Calcium metabolism during pregnancy changes significantly but ionized calcium level remains normal. During pregnancy, there is two-fold increase in intestinal calcium absorption mediated by increase in 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D. Hypercalcemia in pregnancy is uncommon and most reported cases are primary hyperparathyroidism.Case report: A 18-year-old 10 weeks’ pregnant African American female presented to hospital with epigastric pain, nau...