Endocrine Abstracts

: A 67-year-old lady, previously fit and well, presented with chest pain. She denied gastrointestinal or urological symptoms. There was no history of depression, psychosis, previous hip fracture or steroid use. She had regular menstrual cycles until hysterectomy at 50 years of age. She doesn’t smoke or drink alcohol. Her mother and father had oesophageal and lung cancer respectively with no family history of hypercalcemia. On examination, she was normotensive with BMI 23....

: A 67-year-old lady, previously fit and well, presented with chest pain. She denied gastrointestinal or urological symptoms. There was no history of depression, psychosis, previous hip fracture or steroid use. She had regular menstrual cycles until hysterectomy at 50 years of age. She doesn’t smoke or drink alcohol. Her mother and father had oesophageal and lung cancer respectively with no family history of hypercalcemia. On examination, she was normotensive with BMI 23....

64 y/o male was being investigated for raised PSA. Following an MRI and biopsy, he was diagnosed with high grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia requiring close PSA surveillance. Incidentally, he was found to have bilateral adrenal lesions, measuring 6.4 cm on the left and 4 cm on the right. Prior to review in endocrine clinic, adrenal workup and CT adrenals were performed. CT showed both adrenal masses contain fat and calcification and are thought to be bilateral adrenal ...

A 26-year-old female presented with 5-year history of episodic muscle weakness, abdominal cramps and facial paresthesia. She had 2 hospital admissions elsewhere within 6months with severe hypokalaemia (1.9 mmol/L). She was started on Lamotrigine for epilepsy 7 years ago and changed to Levetiracetam in October 2010 following further seizures. She is now seizure-free for over 5 years. Her potassium levels before and after Levetiracetam are shown in Table 1.<table boarder="1"...

Introduction: We present an unusual case of hypophosphataemia with diagnostic dilemma.Case: 43-year-old female presented with 4-year history of muscle weakness, fatigue, bony pains, and limb paraesthesia. There was no background of fractures or iron deficiency. Her medications included amitriptyline and probiotics. She was a non-smoker and teetotaller; mother was short stature, father normal height. There was no family h...

Introduction: Resistance to thyroid hormone (RTH) is an autosomal dominant condition with mutation of thyroid hormone receptor beta (THR-β) gene. We present 2 cases with unusual thyroid picture posing challenge to diagnosis.Case 1: 31-year-old lady presented with 6-month history of anxiety, tremors, insomnia and headache. She suffered from asthma and had a family history of hyperthyroidism. On examination, she was o...

Introduction: Acromegaly is a rare, progressive disease characterised by excess growth hormone. The recommended treatment is surgery. Radiotherapy and somatostatin analogues are used as adjuncts. The risk of post-radiotherapy osteosarcoma is 0.01% to 0.03% among all irradiated patients. We report a case of radiation-induced osteosarcoma that developed 22 years after radiotherapy for acromegaly.Case report: In 1997, a 53-year-old gentleman with acromegaly...