Endocrine Abstracts

A 37-year healthy man initially presented to primary care with weight loss and palpitations and diagnosed to have thyrotoxicosis based on thyroid function tests (TFT) – TSH (< 0.05; n = 0.27-4.20μIU/l), FT4 (59.8; n = 12-22 pmol/l), and FT3 (32; n = 3.1-6.8pmol/l) . CBZ was started and 4-weeks later was seen in the Endocrine clinic where Graves’ disease was confirmed based on a goitre and positive antiTSH receptor antibody. However...

Case history: A 26-year-old man was referred to the Endocrine Clinic due to lack of erections and infrequent shaving for 12 months. An extensive past medical history was noted, the majority of which was attributed to a diagnosis of cerebral palsy. Problems included feeding difficulties from birth with NG, followed by PEG feeding from age 3 to 20, gross motor, speech and language developmental delay, bilateral severe hearing impairment necessitating hearing aids, long sightedne...