Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Intra thyroidal parathyroid adenoma is an uncommon presentation of primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT). Herein we report such a patient who had recurrent hypercalcemia after a classical parathyroid exploration.Case presentation: 45 year old female, home-maker had a long standing history of weakness, back and lower limb pain, loss of appetite. Preliminary evaluation at secondary care level revealed hypercalcemia (18.3 mg/dl) with high intact ...

Patients with haematological malignancies receiving neutropenia inducing chemotherapy sometimes have delayed discharge because of debility relating to complications of treatment. We assessed if these problems could be reduced by human growth hormone (GH) and also if haemopoetic recovery was quicker because stem cells have receptors for GH. In a randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled, trial patients were assigned to receive either GH, 250 mcg BD (n =75) or placebo (n =75)...