Endocrine Abstracts

We describe a patient who was treated for hypercalcaemia with inadvertent ramifications. A 59 year old gentleman with a background history of chronic kidney disease stage (CKD) 4, type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, congestive cardiac failure and bilateral lower limb below knee amputations, presented with hypercalcemia of 3.30 mmol/l (reference range 2.20–2.60) and suppressed PTH at 12 ng/l (reference range 15–65), from a previously raised PTH level of 162 due to...

We would like to present an interesting unusual case of fluoroquinolone induced hypoglycaemia. As per FDA Adverse Event reporting System and medical literature published between 1987–2017, fluoroquinolones are said to have caused about 67 cases of life-threatening hypoglycaemic coma including 13 deaths and 9 permanent disabling injuries, most cases were associated with levofloxacin. Its hypoglycaemic effect is more common in elderly population who are on oral hypoglycaemi...