Endocrine Abstracts

Cardiac complications including cardiac arrest in Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) have been reported in adults but is not common in children. We present a case of a 3½ year old child with new onset Type 1 Diabetes who presented in severe DKA and went into cardiac arrest needing prolonged resuscitation after starting insulin infusion due to rapid drop of serum potassium (K+). Serum K+ on presentation was 2.8 mmol/l and dropped to 1.5 mmol/l within 2.5 h of starting insulin lea...

Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is a common medical emergency in children. Altered consciousness in the form of mild disorientation or confusion can occur but frank coma is uncommon.1 We present a case of a newly diagnosed Type 1 diabetes mellitus who presented in DKA and with glasgow coma scale (GCS) of seven. She developed decorticate posturing soon after she was commenced on resuscitation fluids.Case: A previously well 15-year-old girl was rush...

We present the data from cases of hyperinsulinemia that were seen and diagnosed in a district general hospital over a five year period. The cohort included babies with congenital hyperinsulinism (CHI). In the paediatric age group, several were associated with obesity (insulin resistance) group and there was a case on insulinoma....

Hypopituitarism is a condition of inadequate or absent production of the anterior pituitary hormones (http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/923789-overview). We report a case of newborn with hypocortisolaemia in whom starting hydrocortisone unveiled diabetes insipidus and panhypopituitarism.Case presentation: A term baby girl born by normal delivery to Caucasian parents presented with po...