Endocrine Abstracts

The Endocrine Society guidelines recommend initial testing for Cushing’s syndrome (CS) can be based on non-invasive late-night salivary cortisol measurement (NSC). In the BHSCT NSC (11pm), measured using the IBL ELISA kit has been found to be highly discriminative in identifying patients with CS. However it is a labour intensive test and the need for analysing samples in batches delays turnaround time, limiting its use in the routine work-up for CS. Roche provide an autom...