Endocrine Abstracts

Intentional insulin overdose in diabetic patients is a rare critical situation. The severity is due to numerous neurological complications, electrolyte disturbances, liver and lung damage or death.Case report: A 65-year-old male, with significant cardiac and pulmonary pathology, diagnosed with type 2 diabetes since 1996 and treated with glargine (70 U/day) and aspart (68 U/day) insulin is admitted to our centre via ER (emergency room) after an episode of...

Background: One of the major complications developed by patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) is secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT), due to hypocalcaemia, hyperphosphatemia and 1,25(OH)2D deficiency with parathyroid hyperplasia and high PTH levels as earliest changes, which may require parathyroidectomy (PTX).Study design and objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the indications, the particularities and outcomes post-PTX of patient...

Hypocalcemia due to hypoparathyroidism leads to a large spectrum of clinical manifestations but a rare and unusual presentation is onset or aggravation of epilepsy.We report a 77-year-old man who was found to have profound hypocalcaemia and idiopatic hypoparathyroidism when investigated for epileptic seizures. He had affective disturbances and only mild neurocognitive disorders. Cataract was present. The neurological examination showed an extrapyramidal ...