Endocrine Abstracts

31 year old lady was referred to the endocrine clinic by her GP in August 2008. She had 1 year history of galactorrhoea, 4 months history of irregular periods and intermittent short lived severe headache in the right temporal area without visual disturbance. Her investigation showed a prolactin level of 900 mmol/l, subsequent MRI scan confirmed the presence of right-sided pituitary adenoma of around 1 cm in size with evidence of recent haemorrhage in to it and normal other pit...

A 29-year-old gentleman known to the pediatric endocrinologist for non-mosaic Klinefelter’s (XXY) syndrome. The diagnosis was made opportunistically when a karyotype was organized following his presentation at age of 4 years with delayed developmental milestone. He went through puberty spontaneously and was transitioned to adult endocrinologist in September 2005. At the time he did not have symptom of hypogonadism but did have elevated gonadotropins in keeping with the di...