Endocrine Abstracts

We present a case of a 76-year-old Caucasian woman with combined primary hypoparathyroidism and vitamin D deficiency resulting in life-threatening hypocalcaemia.She has a history of COPD and initially presented in 2002 with an exacerbation of her airways disease. During treatment for her condition an incidental note was made of hypocalcaemia (calcium 1.62 mmol/l). PTH was minimally elevated at the time but 25-hydroxycholecalciferol was low (4.2 ng/ml). S...

HUS is a condition well known to have multi-systemic effects. Whilst the predominant organ to be affected is the kidneys, it is also well recognised that the pancreas can be affected during the acute phase of the illness, causing a transient diabetes mellitus. Less well documented, however, is that HUS has been linked to long-term diabetes, with patients developing insulin deficiency, years after contracting HUS. We report on the case of a twelve-year-old girl who developed in...