Endocrine Abstracts

Case: 55 year old male presented with severe sharp and burning pain at anterior aspect of both legs (radiating from groin to feet), worse at night, unable to keep bed sheets lying on legs due to pain (allodynia). Patient reported weight loss of 3 stones in last 1 year including a recent 1 stone weight loss in 2 months. Patient is a type II DM for the last 3 years. He was intolerant to Metformin and is on Gliclazide 160 mg BD. Alcohol intake around 40 units per week. Initial in...

Case History: Mr AT, a 54 year old male was referred by his GP in 2019 with a two year history of raised calcium. He initially sought medical attention for pain radiating from the left buttock to the knee. He had a background of hypertension and pre-diabetes and was on Nifedipine LA 3 mg OD and Furosemide 20 mg OD. He denied headaches, insomnia, concentrating problems, constipation, polyuria and polydipsia. He had no history of fractures nor renal stones. He was a non-smoker a...

Section 1: Case history: At the age of 18 our patient presented with renal stones and was diagnosed with Primary Hyperparathyroidism (PHPT). At 20 she underwent a right sided nephrectomy for a calculus associated non-functioning kidney. Over the years she has had numerous renal calculi, ureteric obstructions with stents, requiring urology input. Of note she had osteoporosis, hypertension, pancreatitis, gastritis, intracranial hypertension (with shunt in situ) and resistant Vit...

(1) 30-year-old woman presenting at 34 weeks of pregnancy with symptoms of persisting headaches, diplopia and nausea. She presented again 4 years later with similar symptoms in a subsequent pregnancy at 35 weeks with additional complaints of blurred peripheral vision. (2) During her first pregnancy biochemistry revealed marked prolactin elevation (14,000 mIU/l). A non-contrast MRI scan of the pituitary revealed significant enlargement of the gland (22 x 14.4 x 12.5mm) bey...