Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Diabetic neuropathy affects up to 50% of the patients with long standing diabetes mellitus. The duration of diabetes and glycaemic control are correlated with the development of neuropathy. Distal symmetrical neuropathy results in numbness which facilitates ulcer development. Biothesiometry provides a quantitative assessment of neuropathy. Patients with threshold >25 V (grade II) are at a high risk of developing ulcers later.Aim: To det...

Introduction: Metoclopramide is known to exert stimulatory effects on catecholamine secretion, having been used in the past as provocative test in the diagnosis of pheochromocytoma. We describe a patient with an incidentally discovered pheochromocytoma after metoclopramide administration.Case report: A 64 years-old woman underwent total thyroidectomy for multinodular goiter with ‘follicular proliferation Thy 3’ at FNAB of the target nodule. The...