Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Heart failure is a complication of thyrotoxicosis. We present 2 unusual cases presenting with pulmonary hypertension with isolated right heart failure that reversed after treatment.Case description: Case 1: A 55-year-old man presented with weight loss, dyspnoea and leg swelling. HR: atrial fibrillation 51/min. He had a raised JVP, tricuspid regurgitation and severe pitting oedema. Pro-BNP: 4995 pg/...

The recently (2015) revised American Thyroid Association guidelines for the management of differentiated thyroid cancer recognise the importance of histological subtype in risk stratification. The prevalence of thyroid cancer subtypes in an Irish population is unknown. We reviewed all histology reports of thyroid carcinoma from a quaternary referral centre over a 10 year period, 2005 to 2015. 675 reports were reviewed. Of these, 87% were reported as papillary thyroid cancer (P...

Acromegaly is a rare disease characterised by excessive Growth hormone (GH) production from a pituitary adenoma. Subfertility is common in acromegaly and has various aetiologies, therefore pregnancy in acromegaly is rare. We present a case series of 19 pregnancies in 13 women with acromegaly from the newly formed Irish National Pituitary Registry. Twelve women had pituitary macroadenomas, one woman had a microadenoma. The age of the women ranged from 28 to 40 years with a medi...