Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction/aims: Adrenarche, the gradual increase in adrenal androgen secretion resulting in clinical features of pubic hair, axillary hair, body odour and acne, is independent from gonadotrophin-dependent central puberty. It is important that children presenting with these features are not unnecessarily investigated, whilst ensuring significant pathology is not overlooked.There is variation in practice in management of adrenarche. We identified curren...

A 9-year-old boy presented to his local hospital having had a respiratory arrest at home. He had a background of a chromosomal microdeletion, and there had been several days of cough and coryza. CPR was underway and upon arrival in A&E he was resuscitated and retrieved to PICU. The working diagnosis was lower respiratory tract infection.On day 4 of his PICU stay, with progressive signs on his chest X-ray, an ultrasound scan was performed. Th...