Endocrine Abstracts

A 33-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes and autoimmune Addison’s disease conceived in September 2021 following careful preconception counselling. The patient had a history of recurrent, severe hypoglycaemia requiring intensive care admission and had previously received two allogenic islet cell transplants (January 2020 and November 2020). The patient had no severe hypoglycaemia following transplantation, although she continued to experience overnight hypoglycaemia, while...

Introduction: Differentiation between familial chylomicronemia syndrome (FCS), a rare hypertriglyceridemia, and severe hypertriglyceridemia (sHTG; non-FCS) is challenging due to overlap in triglyceride (TG) levels and symptomology but important in disease management. Clinical characteristics that allow for reliable differentiation may exist in the presenting clinical features and primary diagnostic testing. The objective of this analysis was to assess whether readily obtainabl...