Endocrine Abstracts

IntroductionPituitary macroadenoma requires extensive endocrine investigations to diagnose any evidence of hormone excess or deficiency. As a part of routine investigation, IGF-1 is frequently used to exclude growth hormone excess. Here we report 3 cases of pituitary macroadenoma, who had a normal pre-operative IGF-1 but post-operatively developed biochemical evidence of growth hormone excess.CasesWe report 3...

Pituicytoma is a rare hypophyseal tumour with very few case reports in literature so far. We report a 76 years old gentleman, with know hypertension, hypercholesterolemia and T2DM, who presented initially with features of hypogonadism and a bilateral inferior quadrantanopia. Initial Hormonal assessments revealed Testosterone of <0.05 nmol/l, FSH 2U/l, LH 2U/l and Prolactin 586 mU/l, confirming hypogonodotrophic hypogonadism. He was started on testosterone replacement using...