Endocrine Abstracts

A 69-year-old lady with a history of autoimmune diabetes mellitus and primary autoimmune hypothyroidism presented to the Specialist Diabetes Clinic with a significant inexplicable variation in her capillary blood glucose. She had been undergoing investigations with the gastroenterologists for nausea, vomiting, and weight loss. Despite extensive investigations including: oesophageal–gastro-duodenoscopy, CT–thorax, abdomen, pelvis scanning, and gastric emptying studies...

Introduction: Following a National training programme for Endocrinologists to provide RAI treatment for benign thyroid disease, the ESHT NHS Trust started Radioactive iodine (RAI) treatment for benign thyroid disease a couple of years ago. Previously ESHT trust patients were referred to neighbouring trusts for RAI treatment.Data/Results: The data was collected over a 12-18 month period. A total of 34 patients received RAI treatment during this period; 28...

Back ground: Our Cortisol assay was changed from older generation assay to new second-generation Roche cortisol assay for the Short synacthen tests. There is ~ 20–25% difference in cortisol values between these assays. There are debates about the cut off values for normal response (cortisol of 420 or 440 nmols), compared to 550 nmols/l with older assay. And to assess the use of 30 and 60 min cortisol response.Methods: Short synacthen tests data were...