Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Infants presenting with life threatening hyponatraemia and hyperkalaemia present a diagnostic conundrum that can reflect abnormally low aldosterone production (e.g. congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), renal resistance to aldosterone associated with infected urinary tract malformations or single gene disorders also associated with failure of the kidney to respond to aldosterone (pseudohypoaldosteronism). Although incidence figures for individual c...

Background: Optimizing attendance rates in outpatient’s clinics is important to ensure good clinical care and to avoid waste of scarce medical resources. In 2016, we identified a cohort of 17 teenagers that frequently Do Not Attend (DNA) the Paediatric Diabetes Multidisciplinary Clinics, compromising patient care and reducing compliance with NICE and BPT standards. As this cohort was found to be enrolled in a cluster of 5 schools we explored the benefit of taking diabetes...