Endocrine Abstracts

As a physician, diabetes is a condition that you will inevitably encounter in your career. Over 4 million have been diagnosed with diabetes here in the U.K., and importantly this figure does not account for the thousands of symptomless individuals in whom diabetes has not yet been diagnosed. For scientists, diabetes is fascinating on a genetic, molecular and environmental level; glycaemic dysfunction affects every organ in the body. Decades of research have revealed multiple t...

As a physician, diabetes is a condition that you will inevitably encounter in your career. Over 4 million have been diagnosed with diabetes here in the U.K., and importantly this figure does not account for the thousands of symptomless individuals in whom diabetes has not yet been diagnosed. For scientists, diabetes is fascinating on a genetic, molecular and environmental level; glycaemic dysfunction affects every organ in the body. Decades of research have revealed multiple t...

Introduction: Gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD) is a group of disorders arising from abnormal proliferation of placental trophoblasts. Hydatiform mole (molar pregnancy) is a premalignant condition which is further devided in to partial and complete mole. Incidence of molar pregnancy is estimated to be 1 in 1000 pregnancies. Hyperthyroidism is one of the rare complications of molar pregnancy which, if not detected and treated, can lead to adverse consequences. We describe...

Introduction: Adrenocortical Carcinoma (ACC) is a rare endocrine neoplasm with poor prognosis, and an estimated incidence of approximately 2.5/1,000,000 patients. The functional state of these tumors varies from non-secretory (20%) to non-secretory. The latter category is subdivided into glucocorticoid-producing (45%) or glucocorticoid-androgen producing (45%) or androgen-producing only (10%). We report a case of a 35-year-old lady who initially presented with symptoms of Cush...