Endocrine Abstracts

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A patient from a known family with MEN-1 was referred to the endocrine team in 1995 for endocrine screening. At that time she was well although she had hyperprolactinaemia which was attributed to macroprolactin isoforms. Subsequently she was found to have an occipital meningioma which was removed in 2002, but unfortunately developed post-operative partial seizures.In 2006 she developed a non-functioning adenoma in the tail of the pancreas which was succe...

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In 1996, in Monte Carlo’s famous Loewes Hotel, I went from sudden crippling gastric pain to continuous flushing in the space of <24 h, on my return to the UK, I was diagnosed with Carcinoid syndrome. Based on freely available information on the Web at that time, in my mind my life expectancy was going to be 6 years from the point of diagnosis.This session will discuss the impact of a ‘skewed’ sample on the following 6 years of my life ...