Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Treatment-induced neuropathy of diabetes (TIND) is a small fibre neuropathy precipitated by rapid correction of chronic hyperglycemia. Methods: We report two patients who developed TIND after rapid improvement of glycaemic control. Results: 21-year-old gentleman, underlying type 2 DM diagnosed since 2017. He was not compliant to insulin therapy and defaulted follow up. His Hba1c ranged from 16.6%-19%. In July 2020, he...

Introduction: The most common cause of hyperthyroidism in Malaysia is autoimmune cause like Grave disease, or toxic multinodular goitre. Thyroid hormone resistant syndrome is a rare genetic disease which usually presented with mild hyperthyroidism clinically and biochemically it had elevated free T4 and non suppressed TSH. Inexperienced doctor will commonly mistreat patient with antithyroid medication. This is because this genetic disease is extremely rare to encountered in pr...

Introduction: Covid-19 vaccination have been introduced to reduce overall severity and mortality of COVID-19 infection. Autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants (ASIA) is a syndrome first described in 2011 that triggers autoimmune conditions after exposure to various adjuvants through various mechanisms. We report three cases of autoimmune thyrotoxicosis post mRNA type vaccine for COVID-19 possibly linked to adjuvants present in the vaccine....