Endocrine Abstracts

History: The patient is a 30 year old man who was admitted by ambulance following a witnessed collapse. He had arrived from out of state to visit family and they had spent most of the day house hunting and afterwards, gone out for drinks. It was here that he collapsed and became unconscious, with immediate bystander CPR given, until arrival of the crew who carried out a 25 minute resuscitation with six shocks given. He was intubated and transported to the hospital into the int...

History: A 33-year-old man presented to emergency with weight loss of 3 months duration, intermittent sweating and heat intolerance. He had a brother with thyroid disease treated with levothyroxine and did not smoke. He was tremulous and short of breath, with a regular heart rate of 115b/min and blood pressure of 143/71mmHg. Initial assessment showed mildly diffuse non-tender goitre with a bruit, no cervical lymphadenopathy, mild proptosis with mild scleral congestion. TSH 0.0...

Aims: Diabetes mellitus secondary to pancreatic disease and pancreatic surgery (pancreatogenic; type 3c) is a discrete entity to common types of diabetes and there are no well established guidelines for its management. At Nottingham University Hospitals, we have set up a multidisciplinary pancreatogenic diabetes clinic since 2008. The aim of this study is to look at the outcome of the clinic since it’s been established.Methods: Case notes and hospit...