Endocrine Abstracts

In our presentation we would like to demonstrate a complex case with severe spontaneous long-lasting hypoglycaemic episodes that were observed for more than 48-hours. Later the continuous parenteral glucose need was promptly ceased. A 78-years-old hypertensive non-diabetic patient came to our hospital with hypoglycaemic coma. His unconsciousness were cured prehospitally by parenteral glucose replacement. However hypoglycaemic comas (GCS 1-2-1) were observed several times in th...

Introduction: Peritoneal implantation of benign pheochromocytomas – also known as pheochromocytomatosis – is a rare event caused by tumour rupture during surgical intervention. In our tertiary referral centre, we managed over two hundred patients with adrenal pheochromocytoma in the past 27 years. Now we report on the two cases diagnosed and followed with pheochromocytomatosis.Case 1: A 33-year-old man presenting with paroxysmal hypertension ...