Endocrine Abstracts

A 68 years old lady was referred to our endocrine clinic after she had routine blood tests done as a part of monitoring of her chronic kidney disease stage 3. She had high corrected calcium of 2.85 mmol/l and parathyroid hormone levels of 13 pmol/l consistent with primary hyperparathyroidism. She was clinically symptomatic with high calcium and had polyuria, polydipsia and constipation. There was no history of renal calculi or fractures although DEXA scan confirmed osteoporosi...

Introduction: Hypoglycaemia in a non-diabetic patient is not a common condition and is often a diagnostic challenge.Case report: A 78-year-old gentleman was admitted to hospital by paramedics when his neighbours found him unresponsive. He had a background history of primary hypothyroidism. Capillary blood glucose reading done on site was 1.0 mmol/l. He received intravenous glucose which resulted in prompt recovery. All other vital signs were normal.<...

Introduction: Hypercalcaemia is a frequent complication of breast cancer with bony metastasis. There is also an increase incidence of primary hyperparathyroidism among patients with breast cancer. We report a patient with breast cancer presenting with hypercalcaemia secondary to both parathyroid hormone- related peptide (PTHrP) from liver metastasis and possibly co-existing primary hyperparathyroidism.Case report: A 53 year old woman, with a history of r...