Endocrine Abstracts

Forty-seven years old lady presented to another hospital with symptoms of diarrhea and sleep disturbance. She was found to have abnormal thyroid function tests (TFTs) with fT4 44 fT3 12 and TSH 3.4. She had no goiter or thyroid eye signs. Thyroid ultrasound showed a multinodular goiter and an uptake scan was consistent with thyrotoxicosis.She was commenced on carbimazole and in 2001 radio-iodine was administered for a presumed diagn...

Section 1: Case history: 23 Year old Caribbean gentleman attended A&E with several month history of non-specific headaches, changes in memory/mood and joint pains. Since the age of 5 he had been medically treated for renal stones, He had a past medical history of sickle cell trait and was not on any regular medications. There was no significant family history apart from sickle cell disease. He had initial bloods which showed serum adjusted calcium level 3.7 mmol/l and PTH ...