Endocrine Abstracts

ObjectiveTo describe a few cases of patients presenting with various unusual causes of hypercalcaemia to a District General Hospital.MethodsThree case histories, including detailed results of laboratory tests, are presented, and the findings are discussed.ResultsIn the first case we describe an eighty year old patient recently started on lithium carbonate for mani...

ObjectiveTo describe two cases of patients presenting with abdominal pain to the gastroenterologists. These were diagnosed with primary hyperparathyroidism and adrenal insufficiency respectively.MethodsTwo case histories, including detailed results of laboratory tests, are presented, and the findings are discussed.ResultsWe present a 62 year old gentleman who was ...

Background: Germline mutations in SDHB, SDHC, and SDHD cause hereditary phaeochromocytoma and paraganglioma (PGL) syndromes. The genotype-phenotype correlation of these mutations and relationship to penetrance is poor. Our objective was to assess characteristics of patients with SDH mutations seen in our dedicated multidisciplinary clinic.Methods: A retrospective observational study of patients attending from May 2005 to May 2010, approved as an institut...

Background: A basic tenet for hormone replacement is to replicate physiology but this is rarely if ever achieved. The adrenal glucocorticoid, cortisol, has a distinct circadian rhythm regulated by the brain’s central pacemaker. Loss of the cortisol circadian rhythm is associated with metabolic abnormalities, depression, fatigue and a poor health-related quality of life. Based on pharmacokinetic modelling we have developed a modified-release hydrocortisone (MR-HC) and test...