Endocrine Abstracts

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) published a report called Referring Wisely in June 2017. The report asked specialty physicians for a short list of conditions they felt would benefit from specialist input in the context of acute inpatient management (recommended referrals). It also asked for a list of conditions which need not be referred (avoid referrals).Methods: We retrospectively audited inpatient referrals from our electronic inpatient referral...

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) published a report called Referring Wisely in June 2017. The report asked specialty physicians for a short list of conditions they felt would benefit from specialist input in the context of acute inpatient management (recommended referrals). It also asked for a list of conditions which need not be referred (avoid referrals).Methods: We retrospectively audited inpatient referrals from our electronic inpatient referral...

Introduction: Multi-modal therapy for adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) includes surgery, therapy with the adrenolytic agent mitotane and systemic chemotherapy. Achievement of therapeutic mitotane concentrations (≥14 mg/l) has been related to improved outcomes.Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness of a defined* high dose protocol mitotane therapy in patients with advanced ACC (stages III and IV).Methods: Review of patients presenti...