Endocrine Abstracts

A 42-year-old lady, with a diagnosis of Graves’ disease presented with a day’s history of fever, cough, coryzal symptoms and diarrhoea. Being diagnosed with Graves’ disease in 2015, she had been poorly compliant with ATDs. Prior to this presentation, her last FT4 was 31.4 pmo/l with a suppressed TSH. She was intermittently taking propylthiouracil (was intolerant of carbimazole). She had refused RAI and preferred surgery, but hadn’t been keeping up with her ...

Carney’s triad; a diagnosis based on the presence of three associated neoplasms; epithelioid leiomyosarcoma, pulmonary chondroma, and extra-adrenal paraganglioma remains a rare diagnosis. Here we report a 52-year-old female investigated for chronic cough. Initial chest X-ray demonstrated calcified masses, and CT thorax confirmed a left pulmonary lesion measuring 41 mm in diameter with 3 adjacent smaller nodules up to 20 mm. A chondroid pattern o...

Introduction: Hypercalcaemia in pregnancy is an uncommon event that can cause major maternal morbidity and/or foetal morbidity and mortality. We present a case report and discuss management.Case: A 34-year-old woman was seen initially in endocrinology clinic with primary hyperparathyroidism. A neck ultrasound scan did not identify a parathyroid adenoma, but parathyroid MIBI scan suggested a left inferior parath...