Endocrine Abstracts

What does a clinical endocrinologist actually do? There are no angiogram, pacemaker, bronchoscopy, ERCP, kidney biopsy or joint injection lists to be done. Our only practical procedure is venepuncture, albeit multiple times and occasionally at odd times of day. Within a single clinic an endocrine physician will have to ‘key in’ very quickly to a variety of symptomatic issues that often go to the core of human identity. There may be two successive patients with second...

Objective: A case study that demonstrates the importance of thorough psychiatric assessment, intervention and follow-up in morbidly obese patients presenting for Bariatric surgery and risk of addiction transfer.Background: Positive correlation between psychiatric disorders and obesity is documented. Cases of addiction transfer have been reported complicating outcome post Bariatric Surgery.Case description: A 29 year old Caucasian f...