Endocrine Abstracts

Case History: We present a case of a 33-year-old woman who attended with heart failure whilst awaiting a surgical resection of phaeochromocytoma. She presented hours after an intravenous iron transfusion to treat her known iron-deficiency anaemia secondary to menorrhagia from massive uterine fibroids, for which she under the care of the gynaecology team. She was known to have a right-sided phaeochromocytoma, which was found incidentally on MRI in 2021, and was taking phenoxybe...

Background: Focused parathyroidectomy has become the standard procedure for patients with sporadic primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT) fulfilling the criteria for surgical therapy and requires preoperative localization procedures. Ultrasound imaging (US) and 99mTc-sestamibi-scintigraphy with/without SPECT/CT (SC) are established first line procedures. 18F-choline PET/CT (PET) has emerged as a novel sensitive and specific method. However, current reimbursem...