Endocrine Abstracts

Dr Lynnette Nieman is a Senior Investigator and Chief of the Endocrinology Consultation Service at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Research Center. She has been at the NIH since her fellowship. From 1991 to 2001 she served as the Clinical Director of intramural NICHD, overseeing clinical care of the institute’s patients and ensuring compliance with human subjects research regulations.Dr Nieman is an active clinician, having seen mor...

M Sheppard, University of Birmingham, UK AbstractProfessor Michael Sheppard was appointed as Provost and Vice-Principal of the University of Birmingham on 1 October 2008. The Provost has responsibilities for financial and human resources and the development and delivery of the University strategic plan with special responsibility for the University's external and international relations.Profess...

G R Williams, Imperial College London, London, UK. AbstractGraham R Williams obtained a BSc in Anatomy and MBBS from St Thomas’s Hospital, London and undertook PhD studies in Molecular Endocrinology at Birmingham University. He trained as a Howard Hughes and MRC Fellow at Harvard Medical School, USA and was an MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow in Birmingham. He was appointed Senior Lecturer at the Royal Postgraduate...

P E Clayton, Endocrinology and Diabetes Group, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK AbstractPeter Clayton is Professor of Child Health and Paediatric Endocrinology in the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences at the University of Manchester. He is an honorary consultant at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital and at the Christie Hospital and is the Director of t...

Brian Walker, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. AbstractBrian Walker is Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Edinburgh, where he is administrative head of a 60-strong multidisciplinary research group in the Centre for Cardiovascular Science.He graduated in medicine in Edinburgh in 1986 and completed his clinical training in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Since 1996 he has pra...

Anne Klibanski, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA AbstractAnne Klibanski, M.D, is Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Chief, Neuroendocrine Unit and Director of the Neuroendocrine Clinical Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. A leader in the field of neuroendocrinology, Dr. Klibanski's research interests include the pathogenesis of hypogonadal osteoporosis, neuroendocrine contro...

Introduction: Acromegalic osteopathy is an emerging complication characterized by high risk for vertebral fractures (VFS), whereas bone mineral density (BMD) may not be useful to predict the risk. Recent studies have reported that increased advenced glycation end products (AGEs) are associated with bone fragility. We aimed to evaluate the relationship between AGEs and VFs in patients with acromegaly.Study design: Cross-sectionalPat...

Background: Obesity is a serious health problem worldwide and is caused by a wide variety of etiologies. There are several hormones which have been proved to be associated with increased body weight and has a direct effect on the fat metabolism like thyroid hormones.Methods: This is a case control study which included 384 adult persons, they were divided into 2 groups according to the thyroid function status, the first group included 204 apparently healt...

Background : Adrenocortical cancer (ACC) is a very rare but aggressive tumour with annual incidence of 2 cases per million populations. Hypercalcaemia is a commonly encountered paraneoplastic manifestation of certain cancers such as lung, breast, kidney, gynaecological and neuroendocrine tumours but very rare in ACC. So far, there are only two cases of ACC and PTHrP-related hypercalcaemia reported in the literature.Case report: 32-year-old man presented ...

Background: Cranial diabetes inspidus (DI) may be familial or acquired. Traumatic brain injury is an important cause of acquired cranial DI, occurring in up to 22% of patients with moderate or severe head injuries1.Case 1: A 20-year-old male was admitted following a road traffic accident (RTA) with polytrauma including several skull fractures, subdural haematoma, and pneumocephalus. The following day, he developed polyuria and polydipsia. Bioc...