Endocrine Abstracts

Hypopituitarism is a condition of inadequate or absent production of the anterior pituitary hormones (http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/923789-overview). We report a case of newborn with hypocortisolaemia in whom starting hydrocortisone unveiled diabetes insipidus and panhypopituitarism.Case presentation: A term baby girl born by normal delivery to Caucasian parents presented with po...

Background: Congenital hyperinsulinism (CHI) is the result of unregulated insulin secretion from the pancreatic β-cells leading to severe hypoglycaemia.1 Diazoxide is effective in virtually all forms of CHI except in those due to recessive (and some dominant) inactivating mutations in ABCC8 and KCNJ11 and in patients with focal CHI.2 We report a case of CHI with acute kidney injury secondary to diazoxide.Case ...