Endocrine Abstracts

The Endocrine Society recommends urinary or plasma metanephrines as first choice screening tests for phaeochromocytoma due to their high sensitivity. Test specificity is limited by the influence of many commonly prescribed medications resulting in false positive results and additional investigations. The aims of this retrospective study were to (1) Determine the diagnostic accuracy of urinary metanephrines using current cut-off values and (2) Evaluat...

The Endocrine Society recommends urinary or plasma metanephrines as first choice screening tests for phaeochromocytoma due to their high sensitivity. Test specificity is limited by the influence of many commonly prescribed medications resulting in false positive results and additional investigations. The aims of this retrospective study were to (1) Determine the diagnostic accuracy of urinary metanephrines using current cut-off values and (2) Evaluat...

Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) is well recognised in HIV infected and transplant recipient populations and prophylaxis is standard practice. PJP may also occur in rarer cases of immunodeficiency. We report 2 cases of Cushing’s syndrome complicated by PJP. Patient 1 was a 30 year old Indian male who presented with 2 weeks of bloody diarrhoea, abdominal pain and lethargy. He was cushingoid and investigations showed severe hypercortisolism (urinary cortisol >266,...