Endocrine Abstracts

Hypertension is the most commonly recognised cardiac manifestation of a phaeochromocytoma. There are however a variety of other cardiac presentations including arrhythmias and the increasingly reported Takotsubo cardiomyopathy. We present the case of a female patient presenting acutely to the general medical take who was found to have cardiac arrhythmias and transient left ventricular dysfunction.The initial presentation was breathlessness, chest pain, s...

Endocrine Society guidelines recommend random growth hormone (RGH) <1 mcg/l as indicative of biochemical control of acromegaly. Growth hormone (GH) control may also be determined using the mean GH (MGH) of a growth hormone day curve (GHDC). We report a retrospective analysis of 461 consecutive GHDCs, from 121 patients with treated acromegaly, performed in a single centre between 2009 and 2019. Each GHDC contained 7–9 GH measurements (mean 8.9) taken at regular interva...