Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: We present two cases of patients with Paraganglioma of the urinary bladder wall, illustrating the differences in diagnosis and management.Case 1: An 80-year-old female known to have diabetes and hyperthyroidism (treated) presented to her urologist with painless hematuria. Cystoscopy was done and bladder polyps were biopsied. Results of the tumors sampled showed paraganglioma of the urinary bladder wall, although patient was asymptomatic. She p...

We present the case of a 50-year-old male who developed severe hypoglycaemia after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB), illustrating the role of selective arterial calcium stimulation test (SACST) in the diagnosis and management of hypoglycemia. Our patient presented with recurrent hypoglycaemia one to two hours after meals, which started 15 years post RYGB performed for morbid obesity with hypertension, impaired glucose tolerance, NAFLD and ischemic heart disease. The hypoglycaem...