Endocrine Abstracts

Dopamine agonists can falsely elevate plasma and urinary metanephrines, thus making the diagnosis of pheochromocytomas in patients taking these medications challenging. We present the case of an 80-year-old female care home resident with a background of hypertension, Parkinson’s disease (PD), dementia and pernicious anaemia. She presented with weight loss, unilateral leg swelling and abdominal distension. A computed tomography (CT) showed a 5.6 cm heterogeneously enhancin...

Hyponatraemia is associated with an increased morbidity and mortality. Despite having a hyponatraemia algorithm (pdf format) on our hospital intranet, it was rarely accessed and a wide variation in care was noticed. A novel digital hyponatraemia diagnostic toolkit (hyponatraemia.wordpress.com) for Foundation doctors (FDs) was introduced to assess our aims if it: A) increases the awareness of FDs to start investigating when serum Sodium is <130 mmol/l B) increases FD...