Endocrine Abstracts

Objectives: To assess patient satisfaction with the transitional diabetes clinic service. Our transitional diabetes clinics (for 14–19 year olds) are run monthly by a multi disciplinary team comprising of a consultant, nurse and dietician each, from both adult and paediatric diabetes teams.Methods: An electronic tablet with the pre-programmed survey was handed out to 42 young people while they were waiting to be seen in clinic.<p class="abstext"...

Introduction: GH has been proven to improve lean body mass and muscle strength. We report three cases where growth hormone replacement had a significant effect on gross motor function.Case series: A 15 month old boy was born at 33 weeks of gestation. During infancy, he was noted to have global developmental delay secondary to cerebral atrophy and isolated growth hormone deficiency. He was not able to pull himself to standing position but after commencing...

Introduction: Atopic dermatitis can cause significant exudative fluid loss from a large body surface area in an infant leading to severe hyponatraemia.Case report: A 5-month-old boy was referred to the paediatric team from dermatology with severe cradle cap, eczema and fever. He also had faltering growth (weight: 4.95 kg, well below 0.4th centile) and moderate developmental delay. On examination, he had severe infected eczema over a large area of the sca...