Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Prevalence of obesity is increasing worldwide. As a consequence the number of people undergoing bariatric surgery is also on the rise. Hypoglycaemia is increasingly seen in patients who have undergone gastric bypass surgery and we have successfully managed most of them. Here we describe our experience in dealing with one of the patients with disabling hypoglycaemia.Case-report: A 35-year-old woman with BMI of 41.87 kg/m2 had Roux...

Background: Elevated TSH with raised free T4 (fT4) presents a diagnostic challenge. Symptomatically they vary across the spectrum of thyroid status. We report cases with these dilemmas.Case 1: Seventy four year old was referred with 5 years of TSH ranging between 4.9–7.9 mIU/l (0.2–4.0), fT4 18.5–27 pmol/l (9.0–19) and free T3 (fT3) 4.5–12 pmol/l (2.5–5.7). Thyroid perox...