Endocrine Abstracts

A 17 year old woman attended the Emergency Department following an episode of chest pain and pre-syncope, coinciding with high blood pressure readings taken at home. Her blood pressure was recorded as 170/101 with no signs of end organ damage on clinical examination. She had no clinical features of Cushing’s disease or Neurofibromatosis and her BMI was 22.4. She had been seen at a Cardiology clinic 18 months previously for hypertension and chest pains. A 24 hour blood pre...

Insulinomas are functional pancreatic tumours which is mostly benign. Malignant disease is rare with variable course. Much remains unknown with regards to clinical trajectory as well as response to treatment to the commonly used agents between a benign or malignant disease. 70-year-old-man, very fit enthusiastic cyclist a month before initial presentation at another hospital with collapse, blood glucose of 2.4 and mild eosinophilia at which point Addison disease was explored. ...