Endocrine Abstracts

Recently the American Diabetes Association (ADA) adopted a lower cut off for (IFG) Impaired fasting glucose (greater than or equal to 5.6 millimol per litre). We suggested that performing oral glucose tolerance tests (OGTT), in all subjects with IFG according to the new ADA criteria, would result in very little new diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus (DM) and to test this hypothesis we reviewed our recent experience with OGTTs.Between August 2001 and June 200...

Background: CSF rhinorrhoea is a rare but recognised complication of dopamine agonist therapy for macroprolactinoma. In the majority of cases, onset of CSF rhinorrhoea is within 4 months of commencing therapy.Case report: A 23-year-old man presented to the Emergency Department in April 2010 with acute weakness in his left arm and leg associated with intermittent headaches. Examination revealed mild right-sided ptosis and inadequate androgenisation. Visua...