Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Biological casuses of levothyroxine (LT4) malabsorption are well known. Congestive heart failure, gastrointestinal diseases, pregnancy, medication or dietary interference are the most commonly known causes of poor oral absorption of LT4. However, when substitution therapy with LT4 fails we need to be more exploratory.Case description: Female, born in 1987, BH 164 cm, BW 73kg, in 2010 she was presented as M. Basedowi and in october 2011 near...

Introduction: The coexistence of primary hyperparathyroidism with autoimmune diseases is described very rarely in the literature so far. There are only few cases of immune-mediated hyperparathyroidism, associated with anti-calcium- sensing receptor autoantibodies, frequently in context with other immune diseases. Spontaneous remission of primary hyperparathyroidism in anti-TNF therapy of psoriatic arthritis has also been described in one case. Prevalence of positive antithyroi...