Endocrine Abstracts

48-year-old taxi driver presented with a 2-year history of subfertility and confirmed azoospermia. He had normal libido and normal sexual function. His height was 156 cm and he had a normal blood pressure. His medical history included pre-diabetes. He took no regular medications. He had never smoked and he did not drink alcohol. He denied use of exogenous anabolic steroids. His blood tests showed a normal testosterone level of 17.6 nmol/l (RR10.0-3.0 nmol/l) with low gonadatro...

Antithyroid drugs can cause hepatic dysfunction, from mild derangement to severe, fulminant failure. It is well known that propylthiouracil may cause fulminant liver failure yet we present an exceptionally rare case of this type of adverse drug reaction with carbimazole.A 75 year old woman presented to hospital with a fall and a two day history of jaundice. Six weeks earlier, she had been diagnosed with both congestive cardiac failure and G...

Antithyroid drugs can cause hepatic dysfunction, from mild derangement to severe, fulminant failure. It is well known that propylthiouracil may cause fulminant liver failure yet we present an exceptionally rare case of this type of adverse drug reaction with carbimazole.A 75 year old woman presented to hospital with a fall and a two day history of jaundice. Six weeks earlier, she had been diagnosed with both congestive cardiac failure and G...

Section 1: Case: A 42-year-old woman developed central chest pain four hours after undergoing right mastectomy for intraductal breast carcinoma. Serial blood pressures were recorded as significantly elevated, up to 240/130mmHg. There was no history of new-onset headaches, palpitations, anxiety, hirsutism, change in weight or easy bruising. She had no other significant past medical history or family history. Section 2: Investigations : An electrocardiogra...

Aims: Within Imperial College Healthcare Trust, St Mary’s Hospital has a large one-stop shop thyroid service. On average, 700 encounters have been recorded per annum in the St Mary’s thyroid nurse-led service since its inception in June 2017. We aimed to critically evaluate the role of the specialist nurse within safe and robust monitoring clinical parameters, to determine the conditions managed in the nurse-led service and assess attendance rate.<p class="abstex...

A 27-year old Caucasian woman was referred to the Endocrine Bone Clinic after investigations for general malaise revealed hypercalaemia and elevated parathyroid hormone levels. She had no history of constipation, abdominal pain, bone pain, or other related symptoms. She had no history of renal stones or fractures and no change in weight. Her past medical history included asthma and she took a salbutamol inhaler as required. She had no family history of endocrine pathology. Gen...

A 77 year old gentleman was referred to the endocrinology team following the incidental finding of an adrenal nodule on computer tomography (CT) colonography. Following this, dedicated CT of the adrenal showed a 4cm nodule with an attenuation of 30 Hounsfield Units. Biochemical investigation found no evidence of adrenal insufficiency or functional hormone production. Subsequent imaging by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and further CT showed stable appearances in size of the ...

BackgroundThyrotoxicosis with Graves’ Disease is treated with thionamide, radio-iodine treatment and thyroidectomy. Surgery is an important choice, especially when Graves’ Disease is complicated by thyroid orbitopathy. Pre- and post-operative protocols for thyroidectomy are imperative.Aims1) To assess pre-operative preparation of patients, with potassium iodide, vitamin D, beta blockade, and the pre...

Section 1: Case history: A 50-year-old woman presented to the HIV clinic after suspecting adverse effects following two intra-articular triamcinolone injections to her left hip, administered three and seven months prior. She complained of ongoing leg pain, generalised weakness and lethargy. Her past medical history included HIV infection, mild asthma for which she took inhalers only and had never required oral steroids. Her antiretroviral medications included dolutegravir, dar...

Hypercalcaemia in pregnancy is a rare but important finding, given the associated potential risks to mother and baby. These include hypertension, pancreatitis, nephrolithiasis and renal failure in the mother and intrauterine growth restriction, neonatal hypoparathyroidism/hypocalcaemia and stillbirth in the baby (1). We present the case of a 26-year-old female with a background of PTH-independent hypercalcaemia of unknown aetiology. This was initially detected at age 6 months ...