Endocrine Abstracts

A 20 year old male presented with short stature (height below 3rd centile for age since aged 13 years) and lack of secondary sexual characteristics. Past history included repaired Fallot’s Tetralogy, sensorineural deafness, repaired cleft lip and palate, learning difficulties, possible unilateral coloboma, and surgery for undescended testes. There was no significant family history. Clinical examination revealed a BMI of 22.7 (height 1.68 m, weight 64 kg). He had a narrow ...

A 75-year-old female presented with increasing drowsiness and no other specific features. Past medical history included the antiphospholipid syndrome, three episodes of myocardial infarction, left ischaemic leg, epilepsy, hypothyroidism and splenectomy. Medications included warfarin. Examination showed pulse 70/min, blood pressure 120/60 mmHg, crepitations at the left lung base, a Glasgow Coma Scale 14/15. Investigations revealed serum sodium 117 mmol/l, urea 8.8 mmol/l, serum...