Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Severe hyponatraemia and other electrolyte disturbances secondary to indapamide are documented in the literature. We report two cases that presented with neurological sequelae of profound hyponatraemia without seizures secondary to indapamide.Cases: An 86-year-old female presented with a history of confusion, vomiting and frontal headache associated with lethargy and anorexia. She had been started on indapamide 1 month earlier. She was on no ...

We present here the case of a 33-year-old woman, previously fit and well who presented initially with thyrotoxic symptoms. TFTs showed TSH <0.05, fT3 40. Thyroid uptake scan showed homogenous uptake of 8%. She was prescribed carbimazole 40 mg od and propanolol 40 mg bd with improvement.One month later, she presented to A+E with abdominal pain associated with diarrhoea and vomiting. She was found to be unwell, tachycardic and febrile. She had a global...