Endocrine Abstracts

Case history: A 74 years old gentleman with no medical illness presented with loss of consciousness in March 2018. CT head did not show acute cortical infarct but there was florid symmetrical calcification involving the basal ganglia, thalami, cerebellar lobes and subcortical white matter within the parietal-occipital lobes bilaterally. Fahr’s disease was suspected and an outpatient MRI was requested.Investigation and Results: 2 weeks later, a routi...

A 35-year old female presented with a 5 day history of headache, diplopia and reduced visual acuity preceded by 6 months of lethargy and weight gain. Visual field testing revealed left temporal hemianopia. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed a benign pituitary adenoma with intra-tumoural haemorrhage compressing the optic chiasm. Neurosurgical opinion advised on transphenoidal surgery. However, in view of spontaneous resolution of diplopia and recovery of peripheral vision,...

Case historyA 23-year-old female with no past medical history, presented with Acute Shortness of breath and Chest pain. CTPA revealed Bilateral Pulmonary Emboli with slightly low platelets. She was discharged on apixaban. Of note, she had received her first dose of Astra-Zeneca Covid vaccine 10 days ago. She re-presented 2days later with worsening chest pain. FBC revealed platelets 27,Hb 80,d-dimer 10,000. She was treated for presumed chest infection and...