Endocrine Abstracts

We present a 70-year-old female who was initially referred to the endocrinology clinic for an assessment of her type 2 diabetes mellitus. She has a complex medical history including treated hypothyroidism, mastectomy for breast cancer and ongoing yearly surveillance for an excised benign lung lesion. On further questioning she acknowledged feeling generally unwell in the days prior to her appointment and had self-presented to the emergency department with undiagnosed hypertens...