Endocrine Abstracts

Aims: To discover the views of patients with Diabetes Insipidus (DI) on difficulties they encounter with managing DI in different circumstances; the possible causes of these difficulties and how these might be improved for their safety.Background: Between 2009 and 2015 there were 471 serious adverse inpatient incidents and 2 deaths involving DDAVP administration1. The analysis of one death resulted in a suggestion that the name of the conditio...

A 44-year-old Caucasian female eight years previously had been diagnosed auto immune Addison’s disease and started on replacement with hydrocortisone 30 mg daily in divided doses and fludrocortisone 0.1 mg was started on lithium carbonate. One month later when her lithium level was 1.0 mmol/l she was noted to have a sodium of 129 mmol/l, potassium of 5.2 mmol/l and fludrocortisone was increased to 0.3 mg om. Over the next year as her lithium dose was increased as her reni...

We present, the first reported case of twins conceived by Assisted Reproductive Technology (Gamete Intra-fallopian Transfer Therapy; GIFT), both diagnosed to have Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (CAIS).Eighteen-year-old twins presented to the Endocrine clinic with primary amenorrhoea. They were conceived by GIFT and were born premature at 34 weeks and delivered by forceps. On examination, they were two 18 year olds with normal female appearance,...