Endocrine Abstracts

28-year-old pregnant female had been followed with serial scan and thyroid function tests with concern of foetal goitre. She had a previous stillbirth at term where a goitre was found at post-mortem and cause of death was hypothesized to be high output cardiac failure secondary to thyrotoxicosis. Mother’s thyroid function and thyroid antibodies were negative throughout pregnancy. Baby girl was born at 33 weeks by Caesarean Section with a birth weight of 1.785 kg She had a...

Case summary: 7 yr old girl referred by GP to the cardiology clinic with heart murmur. Mother reported to GP about facial and periorbital puffiness intermittently for the last 2 years. Cardiology clinic review showed 1/6 short systolic murmur with small pericardial effusion. Pericardial effusion was initially thought to be possible post viral illness and the facial puffiness which remained unexplainable. A repeat Echo at 3 months later showed persistence of pe...