Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Vitamin D deficiency is increasingly recognised as an important cause of neonatal hypocalcaemia. In this case report, we discuss the impact of co-existing vitamin D deficiency on the diagnostic process in a preterm infant who had refractory hypocalcaemia due to hypoparathyroidism resulting from a homozygous GCM2 mutation.Case report: A 33-week gestation male infant of Pakistani extraction was found to be profoundly hypocalcaemic with seizur...

Neonatal thyrotoxicosis (NT) is a rare condition caused by the transplacental passage of maternal thyroid-stimulating antibodies from mothers with active Graves’ disease or a past history of the condition. We suspected that there were wide differences in the way that babies at risk of NT were managed in our locality and undertook a survey to establish the local approach to this clinical problem.Method: The lead clinician who was considered most like...