Endocrine Abstracts

A 77 year old female was admitted two weeks after an out-patient CT Pulmonary Angiogram showed a subsegmental pulmonary embolism and retrosternal goitre. History was of ten days of confusion, breathlessness, diarrhoea and reduced intake. On admission, she was febrile, tachypnoeic and in new, rate controlled, AF. Burch-Wartofsky Point Scale: 45, this being highly suggestive of a thyroid storm. TFTs were normal one year prior. Thyroid USS showed a multi-nodular goitre. She was c...

Gingivitis is the most frequent periodontal manifestation during oral contraceptives therapy, mainly due to the altered oral bacterial flora under the influence of oestrogen and progesterone. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of low-dose oral contraceptives on periodontal health in young females.Methods: 42 women aged 18–38 years without systemic disease, non-smokers, were divided in two study groups: 22 women treated with low-d...