Endocrine Abstracts

Cardiac complications including cardiac arrest in Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) have been reported in adults but is not common in children. We present a case of a 3½ year old child with new onset Type 1 Diabetes who presented in severe DKA and went into cardiac arrest needing prolonged resuscitation after starting insulin infusion due to rapid drop of serum potassium (K+). Serum K+ on presentation was 2.8 mmol/l and dropped to 1.5 mmol/l within 2.5 h of starting insulin lea...

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...