Endocrine Abstracts

Diagnosis of hypoglycaemia presents few difficulties nowadays providing it is (a) thought of and (b) appropriate samples of blood are collected whilst the patient is hypoglycaemic for subsequent analysis in a suitable laboratory. Adherence by the laboratory to well defined protocol that will be presented and commences with confirmation that the glucose concentration in the plasma/serum specimen submitted for analysis is truly subnormal, will usually resolve the diagnostic dile...