Endocrine Abstracts

De novo vasopressin insufficiency (VI) is extremely rare in patients with pituitary adenoma who have not had biopsy or surgery and raises the question of differential diagnoses including malignancy and infective or inflammatory disease affecting the pituitary. Here we present a case of a patient initially presenting with cystic pituitary adenoma subsequently developing VI. A 24 year old woman presented to her GP with headache and secondary amenorrhoea. MRI brain revealed a cys...

Introduction: In 2014, the British Thyroid Association (BTA) issued guidance on thyroid cancer and introduced a new scoring system for thyroid nodules based on their sonographic appearances (U1-U5). The guidelines specified that nodules with indeterminate or suspicious appearances (U3-U5) should undergo fine needle aspiration (FNA) assessment. This study audits the implementation of the guidelines in our hospital and evaluates any changes in the management of thyroid nodules.<...

Case history: A 55 year-old female presented to A&E with left iliac fossa pain and vomiting, 8 days following her first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. She had a background of hypothyroidism, hypertension and hysterectomy for menorrhagia at age 25 – no prior thrombotic history. She underwent emergency laparoscopy for suspected torsion, which was converted to laparotomy for ovarian necrosis secondary to left ovarian vein thrombosis. Post-operatively, isolated...