Endocrine Abstracts

A 32-year-old man was urgently referred to the endocrinology and neurosurgical teams by the neuro-ophthalmologist. He gave a 3 week history of sudden onset of left-sided visual impairment, with further visual deterioration a week previously. Urgent review in the eye clinic had revealed that the visual acuity in his left eye was reduced to finger counting only, with a pale left optic disc and a relative afferent pupillary defect on examination. Visual field testing demonstrated...

Background: Mucormycosis is a serious but rare angio-invasive fungal infection in high-risk patients with diabetes, organ transplantation, neutropenia, and hemochromatosis. The COVID-19 pandemic has been associated with increased incidence of mucormycosis and the incidence has risen more rapidly during the second wave of pandemic in India. The clinical profiles and risk factors for severity and mortality are not very clear among patients with COVID-19 infected with mucormycosi...

Non-functioning pituitary macroadenomas (NFPAs) are commonly associated with headaches, visual deficits and hypopituitarism. Urgent transsphenoidal surgery (TSS) should be considered for all patients presenting with visual compromise. We evaluated outcomes in 65 patients with NFPAs undergoing TSS in our unit. Patients who had undergone previous pituitary surgery or prior radiotherapy were excluded from this evaluation, as were those with classical pituitary apoplexy and predom...