Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Although it is recognised that diabetic ketoacidosis may present with abdominal pain, it remains important to exclude an underlying acute pancreatitis which may be masked due to ambiguous presentation.Case: A 23-year old woman with a history of type 2 diabetes and non-compliance for her oral antidiabetic medication presented to the emergency department with abdominal epigastric pain and nausea starting a few hours before admission. Laborato...

Introduction: Charcot neuroartropathy (CN) is a devastating complication of diabetes rapidly leading to irreversible foot deformity when misdiagnosed. Differential diagnosis with foot infections and other foot-related diseases remains challenging.Case: A 58-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes was hospitalised with a red, swollen left leg and high fever. The diagnosis of erysipelas with a neuropathic wound of the first digit as the entry wound was establi...