Endocrine Abstracts

We report an 84-year-old lady with stage A chronic lymphatic leukaemia which has been stable since 2002. She presented to our A&E in January 2013 with 3 days history of worsening frontal headache. She did not report visual disturbance or weakness. Examination revealed right sided homonymous hemianopia with no other neurological deficit.White cell count and lymphocytes were 53.9×109/l and 42.0×109/l respectively. CT hea...

Nesidioblastosis is a well recognized cause of persistent hyperinsulineamic hypoglycemia of infancy. Regardless of the pancreatectomy procedure used, hypoglycaemia may recur during long term follow up. We describe a challenging case of recurrent hypoglycaemic episodes in a young adult.We describe a 33-year-old landscape gardening laborer with history of insulin treated diabetes diagnosed at the age of 3 weeks old following subtotal pancreatectomy for nes...