Endocrine Abstracts

A 50-year-old lady presented with fatigue, tiredness and constipation, has more than twenty years history of hypercalcemia. She was clinically and biochemically diagnosed as familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia with high calcium, normal parathormone, low urinary calcium, low fractional excretion of calcium, positive family history. Genetic confirmation was done by positive molecular genetic analysis of CASR gene. She has persistent high calcium level ranging between 2.8 and 3....

23-year-old scaffolder, fit and well, presented several times to A&E with episodes of fitting which comprised of an energy surge followed by typical neuroglycopenic and autonomic signs of hypoglycaemia. He was only found to be hypoglycaemic after a severe episode where paramedics were called to his home and discovered his blood sugars to be 1.8 mmol/l with a serum insulin was measurable. His symptoms were moderately relieved by eating a combination of sugary food like hone...