Endocrine Abstracts

A 37-year-old man presented with persistent right hip pain and night sweats. CT of chest, abdomen, and pelvis revealed a right iliopsoas abscess from which mycobacterium species tuberculosis isolated. He commenced quadruple agent anti tuberculous chemotherapy. Repeat CT 1 year later showed complete resolution of the abscess but a 3.3×1.7 cm mass replacing the right adrenal gland. Considered likely to represent healed tuberculous lesion, treatment completed, and patient di...

A previously well 27-year old female presented with atraumatic foot pain to the orthopaedic service and was identified to have a healing subacute metatarsal stress fracture in the right foot. In view of the unusual presentation, the patient was referred to the metabolic bone clinic for further evaluation.On initial evaluation the patient reported no prior skeletal, joint or dental problems. However at the time of review she reported pain in her right thi...

Background: Autosomal dominant hypocalcaemia (ADH) is most commonly due to activating mutations in the Calcium Sensing Receptor (ADH Type 1), in which treatment with vitamin D analogues is frequently associated with hypercalciuria. More recently, activating mutations in the alpha-subunit of the G-protein α-11 (Gα11), encoded by GNA11, have been identified in a small number of ADH kindreds (ADH Type 2). The impact of vitamin D analogue treatment in ADH2 patie...