Endocrine Abstracts

Langerhans cell (LCH) histiocytosis occurs in 1 per 560,000 adults with variable manifestations. It has a high rate of misdiagnosis due to its variable presentation and rarity. It is even more rare that it presents with simultaneous and multiple endocrine dysfunction early in the course of disease. We report a case of Langhans Cell Histiocytosis in an adult male presenting with central Diabetes Insipidus, Hypergonadotrophic Hypogonadism and pulmonary disease. A 36 year old mal...

Graves’ disease is one of the reversible causes of pulmonary hypertension (PAH). The association was first reported in 1980. Studies have suggested an elevated pulmonary artery systolic pressure in about 36% of patients with Graves’ disease by Doppler echocardiography. We report a case of Graves disease associated with pulmonary hypertension in a young female.Case report: A 41 year old female presented with history of worsening breathless and p...

We present a 67 years old male originally from Cyprus who presented with Hypercalcemia. He had renal calculi twice and required Laparoscopic procedure. In his family history his 3 siblings had confirmed raised calcium and PTH and 2 other siblings had renal calculi. One of his brother, had surgery for primary hyperparathyroidism twice but no parathyroid adenoma was found and his calcium remained high. Patients’ calcium was 2.81 mmol/l (2.15–2.50), 25 HVD 82 nmol/l (75...