Endocrine Abstracts

A 31-year-old woman presented with oligomenorrhoea and a raised prolactin. Pituitary scan revealed a 1.8 cm pituitary mass with compression of the optic chiasm. TSH was normal at 3.66 mIU/l with a raised FT4 of 25.8 pmol/l. The rest of pituitary function was normal. Visual fields demonstrated a bitemporal upper quadrantanopia. A diagnosis of TSH-secreting pituitary adenoma was suspected because of the high normal TSH in the presence of a high FT4. She und...

: A 61-year-old gentleman was referred to the Endocrine team with acute bilateral adrenal haemorrhage. He had undergone a successful left popliteal embolectomy for critical limb ischaemia a week ago following which he was commenced on anticoagulation therapy. He presented to the Emergency Department with acute severe abdominal pain and low grade pyrexia of 37.6 C. He was haemodynamically stable. His International Normalised Ratio was noted to be elevated at 4.7. An urgent abdo...