Endocrine Abstracts

A 22-year old female diagnosed with thyrotoxicosis with raised free thryroxine (16.8 pmol/l) and suppressed thyroid-stimulating-hormone (TSH<0.03 mIU/l). She was started on Carbimazole 20 mg during end of August 2011. A fortnight later she presented with nausea, vomiting, fever and rigors. Her renal functions were deranged with a creatinine of 704 μmol/l, which worsened over the next 48 h. She subsequently needed renal replacement therapy with haemodialysis. She was c...

Introduction: Adrenal masses may be found as incidental features during abdominal imaging investigations, raising questions as to the need to investigate these lesions for endocrine function or malignancy. This audit utilised published articles and consensus papers to compare our current approach with reported practice in other centres.Method: A retrospective review of the case notes of 21 patients referred to the Endocrine service in the Trust from Nove...

A 74-year-old diabetic lady presented to emergency-department following a collapse due to hypoglycaemia (blood glucose 1.7 mmol/l) and responded dramatically to intravenous–glucose. She had recurrent hypoglycaemic episodes in the last-fortnight, despite discontinuation of her oral hypoglycaemics and no other obvious precipitating factors/toxins like alcohol. She was on prednisolone, 10 mg along with azathioprine, 150 mg, atenolol, 25 mg, and candesartan, 8 mg. She has rhe...