Endocrine Abstracts

We report a case of 39-year-old woman presenting with sudden severe abdominal pain and vomiting. She had a past medical history of anti-phospholipid antibody syndrome (APLS) diagnosed in the United States (US) 20 years ago. She had multiple episodes of vomiting over the last 10 years and was diagnosed with cyclical vomiting as investigations including CT abdomen and endoscopy did not reveal a structural cause. She was taking warfarin for APLS. She was haemodynamically stable a...

Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia is characterised by the occurrence of tumours involving two or more endocrine glands within a single patient. MEN are autosomal dominant disorders. Four forms have been described: MEN 1 due to menin mutations, MEN2 (previously MEN2A) due to mutations of a tyrosine kinase receptor encoded by the rearranged during transfection (RET) protoncogene, MEN3 (previously MEN2B) due to RET mutations and MEN4 due to cyc...

Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia is characterised by the occurrence of tumours involving two or more endocrine glands within a single patient. MEN are autosomal dominant disorders. Four forms have been described: MEN 1 due to menin mutations, MEN2 (previously MEN2A) due to mutations of a tyrosine kinase receptor encoded by the rearranged during transfection (RET) protoncogene, MEN3 (previously MEN2B) due to RET mutations and MEN4 due to cyc...