Endocrine Abstracts

Aims: To evaluate the prevalence of depression and anxiety in adult outpatients with diabetes and identify the correlation with diabetes management behaviours and clinical outcomes.Methods: Cross-sectional analyses were performed on 142 diabetic patients (type 1 diabetes n=67, type 2 diabetes n=60) attending outpatient clinic. Depression and anxiety were evaluated using the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-2) and the General Anxiety Di...

Background: Bariatric surgery (BS) is a well-documented treatment targeting weight loss excess. There is little evidence of the impact of BS on antenatal glycaemic control. We present three cases of pregnancy post-BS, who experienced various degrees of hypoglycaemia during gestation.Case presentations: Three women aged 25-, 26-, and 36-years-old, who were previously euglycaemic, presented to the joint antenatal clinic wi...

Background: Bariatric surgery (BS) is a well-documented treatment targeting weight loss excess. There is little evidence on the impact of BS on antenatal glycaemic control. We present four cases of pregnancy post-BS, reviewed in the joint antenatal clinic, who experienced various degrees of hypoglycaemia during pregnancy.Case presentations: Four pregnant women (cases A–D, aged 25–36-years-old, 3–8years pos...

Total pancreatectomy for chronic pancreatic pain is often deferred because it leaves the patient with unstable insulin-dependent diabetes. NICE (2008) has recently approved pancreatectomy with simultaneous islet autotransplantation and we here describe our first case. A 49-year-old female with a 6-year history of intractable, opioid requiring abdominal pain had become depressed to the point of suicide attempts. Imaging showed pancreatic atrophy and duct irregularity (subsequen...