Endocrine Abstracts

A 37-year-old Caucasian man was referred for assessment of borderline hypocalcaemia (2.15 mmol/l) associated with hypophosphataemia (0.32 mmol/l) and elevated serum PTH (145 ng/l). Serum 25OH cholecalciferol was normal (39 mmol/l). Some weeks earlier he had been admitted to hospital as an emergency with severe, colicky right sided abdominal pain. The pain had settled spontaneously and no cause was found. He had subsequently suffered isolated attacks of strangury, dysuria and t...

Introduction: It is accepted that hyperprolactinaemia associated with microprolactinoma may prove self-limiting in 25–30% women, and there is some suggestion from series of mixed gender that the same may be true in men.Methods: We have therefore reviewed the outcome in all men with microprolactinomas managed at the Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology, City Hospital, Nottingham, between 1994 and 2002. All had sustained and previously untreated h...