Endocrine Abstracts

This practical and interactive session will explore the difficult clinical presentation of sweating.This problem is very commonly encountered in primary care, and can present a major diagnostic and management challenge. In practise, although there are multiple endocrine causes for excessive sweating, in the majority of cases presenting with this symptom alone, no endocrine cause is found.An overview of the most important aspects of...

Supervised 72 h fast is historically the gold standard screen for spontaneous hypoglycaemia. Consensus guidelines published in 2009 suggested that β-hydroxy-butyrate levels be measured every 6 h, and the glucose response to an i.v. injection of glucagon be assessed at the time of documented hypoglycaemia, or at the end of the 72 h fast. We incorporated these recommendations into our protocol, and here examine the results of the first 10 cases.A rise...