Endocrine Abstracts

A 55 year old gentleman, previously fit and well, presented with an insidious onset of visual disturbance, tiredness and frontal headaches over 2 years, which had been worsening during the previous 3 months. A routine optician review revealed bi-temporal hemianopia and prompted endocrine referral. Apart from superior bi-temporal hemianopia, clinical examination was otherwise normal. Serum prolactin levels were grossly elevated at 544,800 mU/l with no macroprolactin. Despite th...

Index case and aimsA 26 year old woman was referred to our endocrine clinic with infertility and raised testosterone levels. Clinical examination was completely normal, with no hirsuitism or virilizing features. She had normal gonadotropin and SHBG levels, but had elevated testosterone (6.6 nmol/l (0.5–2.8) and dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate (DHEA-S) levels (13.5 umol/l (1.4–11.1)). To exclude the possibility of interference in our direct assa...

We conducted a retrospective notes analysis to determine the incidence, prevalence and predictive factors of idiopathic postprandial hypoglycaemia (IPH) in a population of 230 000 served by our Hospital.Using the Biochemistry Database all patients who had a 5-hour oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) from 1995 to 2001 were identified, and their notes were reviewed. Demographic, clinical and biochemical data were recorded for each patient. The latter includ...