Endocrine Abstracts

Adrenal haemorrhage is a relatively rare phenomenon which can often present non-specifically. In the case of bilateral haemorrhages, if unrecognised the endocrine sequelae may prove to be fatal. These three cases highlight very different clinical presentations of this important condition.Case 1: A 74-year-old male was admitted following a fall and fractured neck of femur. His post-operative recovery was complicated by acute myocardial infarction, pneumon...

A retrospective single centre audit was conducted on the effects of polycythaemia in trans-male and native male.Polycythaemia is a recognised side effect of testosterone treatment. It could be viewed as a maker of excess testosterone action. We examined whether lipid profiles as a marker of cardiovascular risk differed in a population of polycythaemic transmen (TM) and native males (NM).Forty-six NM and 12 TM were identified to hav...

Introduction: Advancement in modalities of treatment in childhood malignancies has improved the survival. Though Hypothyroidism is the first recognised and commonest thyroid disease in these set of patients, there is also an increased risk of subsequent primary thyroid cancer among the Survivors childhood malignancies who have had radiotherapy to the head, neck, or upper thorax. We hereby present case series of five patients who developed thyroid cancer after childhood cancer ...

A 27-year-old lady presented with headache, bilateral papilloedema and long standing thyroid enlargement. Her MRI brain showed a cerebellar lesion. She had surgery and histology was consistent with Lhermitte–Duclos, a benign brain tumour. She also had retinal changes. Her fluroscein angiogram and optical coherence tomography showed multiple retinal harmatomas and pigmented retinal epithelium. She had retrosternal thyroid extension and had total thyroidectomy because of tr...