Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Endocrine society guidelines advocate early colonoscopy and monitoring for acromegaly-associated complications and recurrence. We aimed to establish whether people with acromegaly under our care received appropriate monitoring.Methods: Patients under follow-up with acromegaly diagnosed 1989-2021 were included. Electronic health records were accessed for clinic letters, colonoscopy reports, blood and imaging results from the diagnosis to rec...

Introduction: Levothyroxine, the standard therapy for hypothyroidism, is usually well tolerated and very few cases of true allergy to levothyroxine have been reported to date. Here we report two cases of rare occurrence of levothyroxine allergy.Case 1: A 56-year-old woman with no previous history of allergies started levothyroxine post-thyroidectomy for Graves’ disease. She developed facial flushing and urticarial rash within 15 minutes of the first...

Levothyroxine, the standard therapy for hypothyroidism, is usually well tolerated and very few cases of true allergy to levothyroxine have been reported to date. In these cases mechanisms have not been conclusively identified but have been hypothesized to be allergies to excipients. Here we report a rare occurrence of levothyroxine allergy and the effectiveness of desensitization. A 56-year-old lady with no previous history of allergies required a total thyroidectomy for Grave...