Endocrine Abstracts

Over the last few years, there has been an increase in the demand on the National Health Service, with patients presenting to hospital with multiple co-morbidities and increasingly complex needs. The type of endocrine referrals received can vary both in complexity and also between clinicians. The Royal College of physician has published a ‘Referring wisely’ report in June 2017 which aims to improve and streamline the quality of referrals received in each speciality. ...

Section 1: Case history: A 38 year old man with no significant past medical history presented to the emergency department with a sudden onset, severe frontal headache. He had been experiencing peripheral visual disturbance for six days prior to this. Routine observations including blood pressure were normal on arrival. Neurological examination of the upper and lower limbs revealed no abnormalities. Bedside visual field test demonstrated significant loss of peripheral vision bi...

Background: The management of Cushing’s disease can be challenging especially when patients can present with sepsis and severely immunocompromised with limited oral medications to achieve cortisol control. We review a case of Cushing’s disease and the medical management of Cushing’s disease.Case Report: A 54 year old female presented with symptomatic hyperglycaemia with truncal obesity, proximal muscle weakness, right posterior thorax haem...