Endocrine Abstracts

A 17 year old woman attended the Emergency Department following an episode of chest pain and pre-syncope, coinciding with high blood pressure readings taken at home. Her blood pressure was recorded as 170/101 with no signs of end organ damage on clinical examination. She had no clinical features of Cushing’s disease or Neurofibromatosis and her BMI was 22.4. She had been seen at a Cardiology clinic 18 months previously for hypertension and chest pains. A 24 hour blood pre...