Endocrine Abstracts

We present the case of a 77-year-old woman with a medical history of diabetes mellitus type 2 and hypothyroidism who was admitted to hospital after having had episodes of recurrent symptomatic hypoglycaemia. The patient had diabetes mellitus type 2 for 26 years and this had gone into remission over the previous 2 years: she had been having recurrent hypoglycaemia necessitating reduction in insulin doses and then subsequent discontinuation of therapy altogether. There was a his...

1. A 48 year old female was admitted to inpatient psychiatry with paranoid delusions, auditory hallucinations and subsequently detained under the Mental Health Act of Scotland. She had been diagnosed with Graves’ Disease 5 years previously having presented with anxiety and weight loss but had elected to refuse anti-thyroid drugs in favour of homeopathy and acupuncture. She refused any treatment for Graves’ Disease when admitted to Psychiatry even though floridly thyr...