Endocrine Abstracts

Case: 81-year-old male with history of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (diagnosed in 1984, HbA1c of 8.9%), hypertension presents to the emergency department with 6 days of worsening nausea, vomiting and abdominal discomfort to the point where he couldn’t tolerate any oral diet. He was admitted thrice in the last year with similar complaints. A routine evaluation was always done including X-ray, routine endoscopy which showed gastroparesis and no abnormal cytology in b...

Case: A 43 years old female with a PMHx of Graves disease initially treated with methimazole (discontinued due to arthralgias) and started on propylthiouracil (PTU). Three years ago she went into remission and the PTU was stopped. About 6 weeks ago, the patient started experiencing typical symptoms of hyperthyroidism including palpitations and hot sweats so she was restarted her on PTU. Patient started noticing fever, chills, myalgias and dry cough. In the hospital her Tempera...