Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Nationally, there has been a concerted drive to utilise technology to support the provision and delivery of specialist services. Within our local area, both secondary care and 95% of GP surgeries utilise the Systm-One electronic health care record. Since October 2016, we have been providing a local Endocrine E-consultation service. A GP requiring advice, rather than referring the patient to the hospital would (after obtaining patient consent), share their record, t...

We report a 51-year old lady presenting to hospital with a 3 week history of abdominal and peripheral swelling. Mentation was slow and noted to be pale on admission. She also reported feeling cold, lethargic, reduced exercise tolerance and constipation. She had no prior medical problems, no regular medications and working till the day prior to admission in a garden centre. She was an ex-smoker, teetotal and there was a family history of hypothyroidism. Physical assessment reve...