Endocrine Abstracts

Pituitary abscess is very rare accounting for 0.2 – 0.6% of all pituitary lesions. Only around 210 case reports have been described so far. We report a case of pituitary abscess presented as pituitary mass lesion with hypopituitarism.A 51 year old man was admitted with headache and found to have severe hyponatraemia. Past medical history included paranoid schizophrenia. Clinical examination was normal.Relevant investigations: ...

A nineteen year old man was admitted by his GP with profound weight loss. He had avoided contact with primary care services as he feared doctors, but had been referred to an eating disorders clinic. He had a diet of exclusively snack food and had been losing weight for two years.On examination he was cachectic and pale with scanty body hair. His body mass index was 13 kg/m2, with a weight of 44 kg. He was clinically thyrotoxic, a small diffuse...

Background: Hyperthyroidism is associated with an increased risk of atherothrombosis and venous thrombotic events by mechanisms that are not fully understood. Previous work has shown that blood clot structure determines the susceptibility to thrombosis and therefore the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of hyperthyroidism on clot structure and fibrinolysis.Methods: Six patients with hyperthyroidism were included in a pilot longitudinal stu...