Endocrine Abstracts

A 74-year-old diabetic lady presented to emergency-department following a collapse due to hypoglycaemia (blood glucose 1.7 mmol/l) and responded dramatically to intravenous–glucose. She had recurrent hypoglycaemic episodes in the last-fortnight, despite discontinuation of her oral hypoglycaemics and no other obvious precipitating factors/toxins like alcohol. She was on prednisolone, 10 mg along with azathioprine, 150 mg, atenolol, 25 mg, and candesartan, 8 mg. She has rhe...

Objective: to evaluate the role of pre-operative insulinoma localisation using selective intra-arterial calcium gluconate stimulated hepatic venous sampling.Method: Calcium gluconate (0.025 milliEquivalents Ca per kilogram) is used as a secretagogue to promote insulin secretion. Simultaneous catheterisation of right hepatic vein and pancreatic arterial supply were performed. The secretagogue was infused into the gastroduodenal, splenic, common hepatic an...