Endocrine Abstracts

The adrenal glands are common metastatic sites of lung and other cancers. Secondary adrenal hemorrhage due to these metastases is extremely rare and to our knowledge, only 3 cases have been described in literature. We present a patient who developed hypoadrenalism due to bilateral adrenal hemorrhage secondary to adrenal metastases from lung carcinoma. A 66 year old man with a 3 year history of non-small cell lung cancer previously treated with neo-adjuvant chemo-radiotherapy p...

Objective: We reviewed the depth and length of hypoglycaemia in a cohort of patients undergoing Insulin Tolerance Tests (ITTs). We evaluated the safety of the test, its reproducibility and explored factors that might predict the optimal dose of insulin.Methodology: ITTs were performed at a teaching hospital in the south of England between 2005 and 2010.Result: The major indication for ITT was non-functioning pituitary macro adenoma...