Endocrine Abstracts

Background: We report a case of a 51-year-old man with functioning cardiac paraganglioma diagnosed subsequent to a primary coronary event. Following a myocardial infarction aged 39; he was incidentally found to have a cardiac tumour in the pericardial sac. This was assumed to be benign and followed up with serial imaging. Recent scans suggested a possible paraganglioma with evidence of very slow tumour growth leading to an endocrinology referral. On further questioning he did ...

Introduction: Endocrinopathies can cause secondary osteoporosis and little is known of the extent of this condition in young adults.Methods: In order to assess the bone health in endocrinopathies in young adults, a retrospective analysis of 25 transitional clinic patients who underwent dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA scan) was made using case notes and the hospital database.Results: Twenty-three patients were male and the me...