Endocrine Abstracts

Contents

• Plenary Lecturers’ Biographical Notes
• • Society for Endocrinology Dale Medal Lecture
  • • Nuclear receptors and AMPK: can exercise mimetics cure diabetes

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    • Society for Endocrinology Dale Medal Lecture

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  • Society for Endocrinology Hoffenberg International Medal Lecture
  • • Multiple applications of intracrinology in clinical medicine

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    • Society for Endocrinology Hoffenberg International Medal Lecture

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  • Society for Endocrinology European Medal Lecture
  • • cAMP in the pituitary: an old messenger for multiple signals

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    • Society for Endocrinology European Medal Lecture

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  • Society for Endocrinology Transatlantic Medal Lecture
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  • British Thyroid Association Pitt-Rivers Lecture
  • • BTA_Pitt Rivers Lecture

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  • Society for Endocrinology Medal Lecture
  • • Genes and giants

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    • Society for Endocrinology Medal Lecture

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  • Clinical Endocrinology Trust Lecture
  • • The dynamics of hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal activity

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    • Clinical Endocrinology Trust Lecture

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  • Clinical Endocrinology Trust Visiting Professor Lecture
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    • Clinical Endocrinology Trust Visiting Professor Lecture

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• Symposia
• • Irn bru, to drink or not to drink: endocrinology and iron
  • • Iron homeostasis: who are the major players?

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    • The iron-regulatory hormone hepcidin

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    • The celtic disease [ndash] haemochromatosis: a disease of iron overload

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  • Hormone Maketh Man
  • • Anti-Mullerian hormone: a Sertoli cell hormone that can be used as a predictor of male hypogonadism

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    • The role of IGFs and the Sertoli cell in driving 'maleness'

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    • Androgens and male fertility: a long way from the black box theory

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  • Nurture not nature: epigenetics and disease susceptibility
  • • A mouse model of non-genetic inter-generational effects

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    • Nutritional programming of epigenetics in metabolic syndrome

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    • Epigenetic changes associated with prenatal exposure to famine in humans

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  • New Bone Biology – Is there life after RANK ligand?
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    • Inhibition of sclerostin in the treatment of osteoporosis

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    • Parathyroid hormone-related protein as a potential treatment for osteoporosis

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  • Sex in the brain (Supported by Endocrine Connections)
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    • Hormone-dependent chromatin modifications regulating sexually differentiated animal behaviour

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  • Making the glucocorticoid clock run smoothly (Supported by Addison's Disease self-help group)
  • • Monitoring glucocorticoid signaling and circadian clock function with transgenic zebrafish reporter lines

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    • Diurnal cortisol delivery: a novel tool for adrenal insufficiency

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  • Thyroid hormone receptors – mutations and implications (Supported by Journal of Molecular Endocrinology)
  • • Physiologically distinct roles for thyroid hormone receptor isoforms

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    • Human thyroid hormone receptor alpha mutations [ndash] a novel syndrome emerges

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    • Human thyroid hormone receptor [beta] mutations-syndrome of resistance to thyroid hormone

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    • Nuclear receptor corepressors confer the actions of mutant thyroid hormone receptor [alpha]

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  • Non functioning pituitary tumours (Supported by Endocrine-Related Cancer and the Pituitary Foundation)
  • • Epidemiology and natural history of pituitary tumours

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    • Pathological markers of aggressive pituitary tumour behaviour

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    • Aggressive pituitary tumours and temozolomide treatment

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  • Novel aspects of GPCR signalling (Supported by the Journal of Endocrinology)
  • • GPCR mutations and reproduction

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    • Persistent signaling by TSH receptors

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    • In vivo dimerization of LH receptors

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    • Allosteric LH, TSH and FSH receptor signaling

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  • Lipodystrophy – The perils of being thin
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    • HIV lipodystrophy

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    • Approach to lipodystrophy management: a new national service

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  • Guts, brains and bariatric surgery
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    • Ghrelin, a gut-brain signal of importance for food reward

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  • Thymic function and autoimmune endocrine disease
  • • The thymus medulla, aire and autoimmunity

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    • Thymic microenvironments for T cell repertoire formation

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    • Regulatory T cells, CTLA-4 and autoimmune disease

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• Clinical Management Workshops
• • Management controversies in parathyroid disease
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    • Medical management of primary hyperparathyroidism

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  • How Do I Do It?
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    • How do I investigate and manage hypomagnesaemia?

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    • How do I monitor and follow up transgender patients using hormonal therapies?

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    • How do I manage the pregnant patient with a prolactinoma?

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    • How and when do I induce puberty in males?

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  • PCOS – why, how and what
  • • Consensus on women's health aspects of PCOS

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    • Is there a place for metformin in pcos

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    • Diagnosis and management of hirsutism

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  • Managing Hypoglycaemia
  • • Hypoglycaemia in diabetes: effects on cerebral and autonomic function

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    • Hypoglycaemia in neonates and Children

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    • Autoimmune hypoglycaemia [ndash] when and how to look for anti-insulin and anti-insulin receptor antibodies

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• Applied Physiology Workshop
• • Digital copies: exploiting numerical models of biological systems
  • • Modelling neuroendocrine systems

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    • Distinguishing normal, depressive and PTSD cortisol dynamics in humans through mathematical modelling

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    • Modelling the circulating renin[ndash]angiotensin system and its effects on blood pressure

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• Debate
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  • • Clinical Debate: this house believes that radio iodine should be the first line treatment for all patients with Graves' disease: FOR

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    • Against

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• Meet the Expert Sessions
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    • Malignant phaeochromocytomas

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    • Hormone misuse in sport and leisure

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    • Nanometre-resolution imaging of hormonal secretion in living cells in real time

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• Nurse Session
• • The Patient Pathway for Pituitary Care
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  • Late Effects
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    • Gonadal late effects

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• Young Endocrinologists Session
• • Young endocrinologists' prize lectures
  • • Clinical and pre-clinical studies of neuroendocrine tumours (NETs) in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1), and evaluation of MEN1 gene replacement therapy for MEN1-associated NETs.

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    • The Wnt/[beta]-catenin effector Tcf3/TCF7L1 is required for normal hypothalamic[ndash]pituitary development

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  • Maintaining your endocrine career despite what life throws at you
  • • Maintaining an active basic research career whilst juggling an academic and personal life

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    • Juggling a clinical workload: and academic research

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    • Non-traditional career paths towards an academic career

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    • Daphne Jackson Fellowships offer returners the chance to re-establish a research profile after a career break

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• Senior Endocrinologists Session
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  • • Robert Graves' and his remarkable colleagues

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    • Robert Graves' and his remarkable colleagues

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    • Should the aging male become a father?

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    • Hypovitaminosis-D and the RAS in type 2 diabetes risk

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    • Type 1 and type 2 diabetes are the same disorder of insulin resistance, but with different genetic backgrounds

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    • Suspicious hypoglycaemia; was it insulin?

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• Oral Communications
• • Young Endocrinologists prize session
  • • TNF[alpha] directly regulates in vivo corticosteroid metabolism in inflammatory arthritis

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    • Macrophage-specific 11[beta]-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 deficiency promotes angiogenesis but impairs resolution of K/BxN serum induced arthritis

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    • 11[beta]-HSD1KO mice are protected from glucocorticoid dependent age-associated muscle atrophy

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    • A serum microRNA profile potentially associated with glucocorticoid mediated insulin resistance

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    • Inhibition of 5[alpha]-reductase type 1 with dutasteride impairs insulin sensitivity

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    • Improving the vitamin D status of vitamin D deficient adults is associated with improved mitochondrial oxidative function in skeletal muscle

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    • Autosomal dominant hypocalcemia type 2 is caused by germline GNA11 gain-of-function mutations

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    • Kisspeptin advances ovulation in healthy women

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  • Steroids and thyroid
  • • Loss-of-function mutations in IGSF1 cause a novel, X-linked syndrome of central hypothyroidism and testicular enlargement

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    • Abnormal cardiac bio-energetics in subclinical hypothyroidism; cardiac magnetic resonance spectroscopic study

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    • A bi-transgenic murine model of PTTG and PBF overexpression in the thyroid gland

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    • THRA or DIO2 mutations are not a common cause of high bone mass in humans

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    • A mutation in thioredoxin reductase 2 (TXNRD2) is associated with a predominantly adrenal phenotype in humans

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    • An N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea induced Corticotrophin releasing hormone promoter mutation provides a mouse model of Cushing's syndrome

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    • 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1: a role in skin wound healing

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    • When math meets biology: systems approach to drug resistance analysis

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  • Reproduction, growth and development
  • • Identification of very early sorting endosomes that spatially program gonadotrophin hormone receptor signalling

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    • Heterodimerisation of GNRH receptors modifies the LH-induced calcium signalling profile

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    • Regulation of G protein-coupling specificity via cis and trans activation of the LH/chorionic gonadotrophin receptor (LHCGR)

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    • Characterising changes in the in vivo male rodent brain using magnetic resonance spectroscopy

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    • Effects of in utero exposure to acetaminophen (paracetamol) on steroidogenesis by the rat and human fetal testis

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    • Follistatin-like 3 (FSTL3), a transforming growth factor β ligand inhibitor, is essential for placental development in mice

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    • Disruption of mesenchymal glucocorticoid signaling attenuates embryonic lung development and results in post natal lethality in mice

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    • Adiponectin induces GSK3 kinase-mediated cross-tolerance to endotoxin in macrophages

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  • Obesity, metabolism and bone
  • • Glucocorticoid receptor deficiency in cardiomyocytes causes pathological cardiac remodelling in mice

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    • 11[beta]-HSD1 knockout mice are protected from the adverse metabolic effects of exogenous glucocorticoid excess

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    • Adult offspring of undernourished sheep exhibit epigenetic alterations in HPA axis glucocorticoid receptor

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    • Cholestatic pregnancy programmes metabolic disease in the offspring

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    • Energy intake following infusion of glucagon and GLP-1: a double-blind crossover study

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    • Transgenic disruption of 5α-reductase 1 increases susceptibility to liver fibrosis

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    • Familial hypocalciuric hypercalcaemia type 3 is caused by mutations in adaptor protein 2 sigma 1

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    • Peptide YY regulates bone mineral content and strength

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  • Pituitary and neoplasia
  • • Genetic background influences tumour phenotype in heterozygous Men1 knockout mice

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    • The role of microRNA miR-34a in the regulation of aryl hydrocarbon receptor interacting protein

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    • Whole-exome sequencing studies of non-functioning pituitary adenomas

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    • Clinical, metabolic, biochemical and radiological characterisation of patients with thyrotropinomas reveals a highly variable phenotype

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    • Densely and sparsely granulated somatotroph adenomas: clinical, genetic and histological differences

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    • Manipulating PBF/PTTG1IP phosphorylation status to improve radioiodine uptake in thyroid and other tumours

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    • Uterine tumours with loss of progesterone receptor expression develop in mice deleted for a cell division cycle 73 allele

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    • Pituitary adenoma and phaeochromocytoma/paraganglioma [ndash] a novel syndrome with a heterogeneous genetic background

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• Poster Presentations
• • Bone
  • • GNA11 loss-of-function mutations cause familial hypocalciuric hypercalcaemia type 2 (FHH2)

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    • Increased linear bone growth in SOCS2 knockout mice in response to GH is independent of systemic or local IGF1

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    • Mutations in CLC-5 cause disturbances in cytoskeletal dynamics and solute transport in Dent's disease renal proximal tubule cell-lines

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    • Contribution to bone mass and strength of osteoblast GH actions that are independent of local IGF1 production: lessons from the SOCS2 knockout mouse

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    • Mimicking osteocytes in vivo using 3D collagen gels: development of a novel tool to study osteocyte biology

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    • Retinoic acid and IGF1 stimulate the differentiation of human primary osteoblasts to osteocytes in 3D collagen gels

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    • Alterations of CLC-5 expression, function and trafficking in Dent's disease

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    • Excessive GH expression in bGH transgenic mice adversely alters bone architecture and quality

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    • Bone health in type 1 diabetes patients with celiac disease

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    • High throughput detection of early joint pathology in mouse models of osteoarthritis

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    • Bone health in children with GH deficiency

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    • Vitamin D receptor polymorphisms and bone mass indices in post menarcheal Indian adolescent girls

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    • Identification of a novel heterozygous mutation in exon 50 of the COL1A1 gene manifesting clinically as osteogenesis imperfecta

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    • Bone mass accrual following supplementation of vitamin D alone versus vitamin D+ calcium in underprivileged Indian premenarcheal girls

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    • Primary hyperparathyroidism in patients with urolithiasis: prevalence and predictors

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    • Impact of hyponatraemia in patients with fracture neck of femur

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    • Risperidone associated changes in prolactin and bone mineral density: a study from South India

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    • Predictors of low bone mineral density in an Irish cystic fibrosis (CF) cohort

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    • Comparison of different measures of urinary calcium excretion in primary hyperparathyroidism

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    • Metabolic sydrome in women with osteoporosis on bisphosphonate therapy

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    • The utility of neck MRI in the localisation of parathyroid adenomas in primary hyperparathyroidism

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    • Renal replacement therapy to treat severe hypercalcaemic crisis: case series

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    • Audit of cost-saving following introduction of investigation protocol for primary hyperparathyroidism

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    • Effect of bone mineral density in patients with non-functioning pituitary adenoma

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    • Proximal myopathy: a diagnostic dilemma

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    • Audit of primary hyperparathyroidism management: do we adhere to the guidelines?

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    • The diagnosis of osteoporosis among subjects of Southern Indian origin above 50 years of age: the impact of the indian council of medical research vs caucasian bone mineral density reference standards

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    • Not the end of brown tumours: three cases within 12 months

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    • A case of severe immobilization hypercacemia in a young patient on neurorehabilitation unit

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    • Cinacalcet treatment for hypercalcaemia in primary hyperparathyroidism

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    • AUDIT of patients referred for DXA scanning in a south Indian Tertiary care centre

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    • Audit of management of patients with primary hyperparathyroidism in district general hospital

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    • Osteogenic malignancy and severe vitamin D deficiency (osteogenic osteomalacia)

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    • Osteogenic malignancy and severe vitamin D deficiency (Osteogenic osteomalacia)

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  • Clinical biochemistry
  • • A rapid and sensitive LC-MS/MS assay for the routine analysis of estradiol and estrone

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    • The search for 3-Epi-25-hydroxy vitamin D

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    • Plasma metanephrine analysis by online solid phase extraction LC-MS/MS

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    • Development of an inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry method for measurement of urine iodine and assessment of iodine status in subclinical hypothyroidism

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    • Cross-reactivity of ten recombinant insulin preparations in the Abbott Architect Insulin immunoassay

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    • HPLC analysis on separation of BSA from dilute solution

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    • MSIA-SRM assay for parathyroid hormone and vitamin D binding protein: correlation with clinical immunoassay methods and application to clinical samples

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    • Glycosylated linkers to generate long-acting GH tandems

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    • High pulmonary artery pressure is associated with BNP and NT-proBNP in lowlanders acclimatising to high altitude

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    • Danazol cross-reacts in the Roche E170 testosterone assay

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    • Persistent hyperparathyroidism following parathyroidectomy: can routine vitamin D replacement prior to surgery alter post-operative secondary hyperparathyroidism?

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    • Service review and demand management following clinical audit of urine free cortisol requesting at Barts Health NHS Trust

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    • Hyponatremia in patients with fractured neck of femur: short and medium term outcomes

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    • A comparison of serum chromogranin A measurement with 24 h urine and serum 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid measurement in patients with NETs

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    • An unusual case of chronic liquorice ingestion presenting as hypokalemic paralysis

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    • Role of urinary dopamine in investigation of phaeochromocytoma/paraganglioma

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    • Liquorice induced hypertension and hypokalaemia

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    • Calcification of basal ganglia in chronic hypoparathyroidism

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    • A review of causes of hypomagnesaemia in hospital patients and its management

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    • An audit on management of hyponatraemia in hospitalised patients

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    • Impact of hyponatraemia in critically ill patients

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    • Audit of inpatient management of hyponatraemia

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  • Clinical practice/governance and case reports
  • • Initiation and maintenance of mitotane as adjuvant therapy for adrenocortical cancer: a single centre experience

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    • De Novo HNF1b mutation as a cause for chronic treatment-resistant hypomagnesaemia

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    • Outcomes of transsphenoidal surgery (TSS) for acromegaly

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    • How do medical students and doctors learn clinical endocrinology?

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    • An unusual cause of Cushing's syndrome with secondary adrenal insufficiency

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    • Management of intercurrent illness in adrenal insufficiency

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    • A case of Hashimoto's thyroiditis induced coagulopathy

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    • Conn's syndrome with normal plasma renin aldosterone ratio

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    • Peri-operative [alpha]-blockade: efficacy of intravenous phenoxybenzamine vs oral phenoxybenzamine in patients with phaeochromocytoma and paraganglioma

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    • A very interesting presentation: VIP co-secretion by a phaeochromocytoma

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    • A single pathology specialty service for hyperthyroid patients improves care and outcomes compared to general endocrine clinics: results and implications of an audit: re-audit cycle of clinical outcomes for differing hyperthyroid care models

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    • Novel use of subcutaneous octreotide via an insulin pump for postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome

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    • Management of primary hyperparathyroidism during pregnancy: a case series of the lessons learnt

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    • Normal plasma and urine catecholamines in a patient with symptoms and radiological findings of a phaeochromocytoma cured by laparoscopic adrenalectomy

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    • Bariatric surgery in a patient with melanocortin 4 receptor mutation

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    • Tolvaptan treatment in hyponatraemia due to chronic heart failure

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    • Hypercalcaemia secondary to colecalcifrol administration in undiagnosed sarcoidosis

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    • Spironolactone interference in the immunoassay of androstenedione in a patient with a cortisol-secreting adrenal adenoma

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    • An unusual case of confusion and hyponatraemia

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    • Hypernatraemia with reset osmostat associated with secondary hypogonadism

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    • A case of dry beriberi following bariatric surgery

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    • Giant parathyroid adenoma extending into the mediastinum: a case report

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    • Tertiary hyperparathyroidism due to chronic severe vitamin D deficiency in ethnic minority patients: a case series

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    • Hypercalcaemia due to simultaneous presentation of primary hyperparathyroidism and metastatic oesophageal cancer

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    • 'There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact', Sherlock Holmes: a case report of thyroid sarcoidosis

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    • A case of severe hypoaldosteronism following unilateral adrenalectomy for Conn's syndrome

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    • SDHB mutation and a large asymptomatic paraganglioma in a young woman: the importance of taking a good family history

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    • The challenges of a dopamine secreting paraganglioma

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    • Lithium-induced hyperparathyroidism successfully treated with cinacalcet: two case reports

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    • Recurrence of a brown tumour in a patient with secondary hyperparathyroidism due to severe vitamin D deficiency

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    • An uncommon presentation of a common endocrine condition

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    • Rare case of pheochromocytoma presenting in pregnancy

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    • Non islet cell tumour hypoglycaemia resistant to medical treatment

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    • An unusual case of pancreatitis: a case report

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    • A painful neck in a young well looking man presenting to A[amp]E

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    • Life threatening airway obstruction secondary to a large probable parathyroid cyst

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    • Tuberous sclerosis: an uncommon cause of hyperprolactinemia

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    • Acute diabetic autonomic neuropathy as phaeochromocytoma mimic

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    • Hypervitaminosis D, an uncommon reality!

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    • Simultaneous presentation of Graves[apos] thyrotoxicosis and Addison[apos]s disease presenting as incipient adrenal crisis

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    • Severe refractory non-islet cell tumour hypoglycaemia due to metastatic colorectal carcinoma

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    • Unusual presentation of central pontine myelinolysis

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    • SIADH and bilateral adrenal infarction in a patient with the antiphospholipid syndrome

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    • Incidental papillary thyroid carcinoma with primary hyperparathyroidism: two cases

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    • Hypercalcaemia as first presentation of sarcoidosis

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    • Tumours metastatic to the pituitary gland presenting with atypical symptoms

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    • Acute adrenal insufficiency due to bilateral adrenal haemorrhagic infarction associated with sepsis secondary to an open fracture of the ankle

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    • Ectopic thyroid tissue presenting as metastatic follicular cancer

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    • A peculiar case of a dog bite

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    • Management of diabetic ketoacidosis in a district general hospital: a 3 years retrospective audit

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    • Unusual presentations of adrenocortical tumours

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    • An audit of the diagnosis and management of hypogonadism in adult men

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    • Pituitary tuberculosis

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    • The difficulties in diagnosing and treating phaeochromocytoma in a patient with multiple co-morbidities

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    • Adrenal incidentalomas: who requires further testing?

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    • GH therapy in adults with Prader[ndash]Willi syndrome

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    • Primary hyperparathyroidism in pregnancy: a conservative approach

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    • Audit of the management of primary hyperparathyroidism at Watford general hospital

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    • Potential role of antituberculosis treatment as cause of severe hypocalcaemia immediately following total thyroidectomy

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    • Pelvic pain in a type 2 diabetes patient

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    • Clinical practice hyperaldosteronism: a misleading adrenal tumor

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    • Bilateral adrenal calcification caused by a previous Streptococus mitis septicaemia

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    • A question of GH deficiency or not

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    • Ectopic ACTH syndrome as a presenting symptom of bronchogenic carcinoma

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    • Secondary diabetes due to phaeochromocytoma

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    • Absent thyroid with GH deficiency

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    • Degree of bone mineral density improvement in patients with osteoporosis on current NICE recommended treatments: an audit

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    • Accelerated renal impairment in a patient with type 2 diabetes with an inadequately investigated incidental adrenal adenoma

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    • Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus caused by lithium toxicity

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    • Title: A case of primary hypoadrenalism secondary to amyloidosis

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    • A challenging case of recurrent disabling severe hypoglycemic episodes

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    • 'Gastroparesis' in a patient with uncontrolled diabetes: NOT always autonomic neuropathy!

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    • Audit on continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion

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    • Radioactive iodine-induced hyperparathyroidism

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    • A case of phaeochromocytoma presenting as incidentloma

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    • Propylthiouracil-induced severe agranulocytosis!

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    • Rare onset of polyendocrinopathies in a pediatric patient

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    • Diarrhoea and an adrenal incidentaloma

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    • Multiple autoimmune diseases: is it rare?

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  • Cytokines and growth factors
  • • Effect of acute hypoxia upon myostatin expression in healthy individuals

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    • Genes for IGF2 and related IGF binding proteins are associated with longitudinal trends in BMI

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    • Comparing the effect of rimonabant and metformin on vascular endothelial growth factor levels in women with PCOS

      ea0031p138
    • IGF binding protein-2 is associated with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in type 2 diabetes

      ea0031p139
  • Growth and development
  • • Comprehensive spatio-temporal expression profiling reveals a complete natriuretic peptide system in the developing Zebrafish (Danio rerio)

      ea0031p140
    • Impaired heart function and cardiac maturation in fetal mice with disrupted GR signalling in vascular smooth muscle and cardiomyocytes

      ea0031p141
    • Impact of a low protein diet during pregnancy in sheep on insulin and vascular endothelial growth factor signalling

      ea0031p142
    • Reduced glucocorticoid action in obese pregnancy associates with increased birth weight and macrosomia

      ea0031p143
    • Identification of twenty-two novel GATA3 mutations in hypoparathyroidism-deafness-renal dysplasia syndrome

      ea0031p144
    • Familial constitutional delay in growth and puberty is a condition with significant genetic heterogeneity and limited overlap with the timing of puberty in the general population

      ea0031p145
    • Pre-clinical investigation of therapy for segmental overgrowth caused by constitutive activation of phosphoinositide-3 kinas: lessons for cancer therapy

      ea0031p146
    • Effects of the endocrine disrupting herbicide, Atrazine, on pituitary development, gene expression and signalling pathways in Zebrafish (Danio rerio) and mouse pituitary cell lines

      ea0031p147
    • The spectrum of associated congenital anomalies in disorders of sex development: a review of the I-DSD Registry

      ea0031p148
  • Neoplasia, cancer and late effects
  • • Epigenetic modifiers reduce proliferation of human neuroendocrine tumour cell lines

      ea0031p149
    • POMC correlates with viable tumour cell mass in lung cancer xenografts

      ea0031p150
    • Phenotype[ndash]genotype analysis in a cohort of patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 identifies a novel nonsense mutation at codon 554

      ea0031p151
    • Parathyroid gland studies in mouse models for endocrine tumours defines anatomical locations and ultrastructural differences between normal and tumour cells

      ea0031p152
    • Functional induction of the oestrogen-regulated PTTG1-binding factor in colorectal cancer

      ea0031p153
    • PBF overexpression causes increased p53 ubiquitination and degradation via MDM2

      ea0031p154
    • Mechanisms of estrogen receptor function in breast cancer

      ea0031p155
    • Investigation of the antiproliferative effect of natural sesquiterpene lactones on human cancer cell lines

      ea0031p156
    • Predicted NES in PBF appears to be functional in vitro

      ea0031p157
    • Pituitary metasases: patients presenting with cranial nerve palsies and diabetes insipidus: a single centre experience

      ea0031p158
    • The relationship between anatomical location of phaeochromocytoma and paraganglioma and their secretory properties

      ea0031p159
    • Adjuvant use of 131I-MIBG in phaeochromocytoma and paraganglioma at high risk of malignancy

      ea0031p160
    • Multi-modal approach to treatment in advanced adrenocortical carcinoma

      ea0031p161
    • Prevalence of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 syndrome in primary hyperparathyroidism

      ea0031p162
    • Primary thyroid cancer as late effects of childhood cancer therapy: a case series of five patients

      ea0031p163
    • Diagnosis, localisation and management of insulinoma; a single-centre experience

      ea0031p164
    • Audit of patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 in a tertiary referral centre

      ea0031p165
    • Difficulties in management of malignant insulinoma

      ea0031p166
    • Crizotinib induced hypogonadism: a novel complication of lung cancer treatment

      ea0031p167
    • Review of patients with adrenocortical carcinoma at a tertiary referral centre

      ea0031p168
    • Between genetics, guidelines and treatment in MEN2A: a family affair

      ea0031p169
    • Cowden syndrome

      ea0031p170
    • Recurrent bronchial carcinoid tumour presenting as a thyroid nodule

      ea0031p171
    • Gut carcinoid in a patient with horseshoe kidney and family history of carcinoid syndrome: a case report

      ea0031p172
    • Insulinoma in postprandial hypoglycaemia and aggressive behaviour

      ea0031p173
    • Hyperparathyroid jaw tumour syndrome

      ea0031p174
  • Nursing practice
  • • Using a nursing model in the management of a patient with McCune[ndash]Albright syndrome

      ea0031p175
    • Development of adult endocrine specialist nurse competencies

      ea0031p176
  • Obesity, diabetes, metabolism and cardiovascular
  • • Association of calcium-sensing receptor polymorphisms with vascular calcification and glucose homeostasis in renal transplant recipients

      ea0031p177
    • Testosterone stimulates cholesterol efflux and metabolism in human macrophages via liver X receptor

      ea0031p178
    • FGF21 action on human adipose tissue compromised by reduced [beta]Klotho and FGFR1 expression in type 2 diabetes mellitus

      ea0031p179
    • A component of transcriptional PRC2 complex, enhancer of zest homology, modulates endothelial cell responses to hypoxia and post-ischemic angiogenesis in a mouse model of limb ischemia

      ea0031p180
    • The role of hepatic 11[beta]-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 in cholesterol homeostasis

      ea0031p181
    • Vitamin B12 and folate imbalance induces cholesterol synthesis and endoplasmic reticulum stress in human adipocytes

      ea0031p182
    • The effects of Syzygium aromaticum-derived oleanolic acid on reactive oxygen species in the heart, liver and kidney of STZ-induced diabetic rats

      ea0031p183
    • Effects of vitamin D supplementation on blood pressure, glucocorticoids and cardiovascular risk markers in healthy subjects

      ea0031p184
    • Knockdown of brain 11[beta]-HSD1 does not lower body weight or improve insulin sensitivity

      ea0031p185
    • C-type natriuretic peptide down regulates interferon [gamma] mediated pro-inflammatory gene expression in human endothelium

      ea0031p186
    • Acute effects of co-infusion of peptide YY (3[ndash]36) and glucagon-like peptide-1 on insulin secretion and insulin sensitivity

      ea0031p187
    • Human abdominal subcutaneous adipocytes as an active source of LpPLA2, influenced by fat depot and metabolic state, with LpPLA2 converting LDL into more potent atherogenic Ox-LDL, in vitro

      ea0031p188
    • The role of glucocorticoid metabolism in bile acid homeostasis

      ea0031p189
    • Testosterone differentially regulates lipid and glucose metabolism in visceral and subcutaneous fat in the testicular feminised mouse

      ea0031p190
    • Novel inositol pyrophosphate and insulin sensitivity in response to muscle contraction in glucose intolerant humans

      ea0031p191
    • Augurin stimulates food intake in male Wistar rats

      ea0031p192
    • Abstract unavailable

      ea0031p193
    • Intracellular delivery of therapeutic siRNA via an antennapedia-double stranded RNA binding domain fusion protein as a novel strategy for PTP1B translation attenuation in type 2 diabetes

      ea0031p194
    • Replication of genome wide association-validated loci for type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Saudi Arabian population

      ea0031p195
    • Cellular consequences for insulin signal transduction of the naturally occurring AKT2 p.Glu17Lys mutation

      ea0031p196
    • DPPIV and macronutrients regulate the expression of PYY3[ndash]36 in human gut epithelial cells

      ea0031p197
    • Inflammatory markers in diabetic foot and impact of vitamin D deficiency

      ea0031p198
    • The possible involvement of the receptor for advanced glycation end products in vascular senescence in diabetes

      ea0031p199
    • Effects of Syzygium aromaticum-derived oleanolic acid administration on postprandial glucose concentration and key intestinal carbohydrate hydrolyzing enzymes of streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats

      ea0031p200
    • Unfolded protein response pathway, IRE1[alpha]-XBP1 is altered during adipogenesis in obese human adipocytes

      ea0031p201
    • Vitamin D and insulin resistance: no association in healthy overweight people at high risk of cardiovascular disease

      ea0031p202
    • Evaluation of efficacy of transdermal delivery of chloroquine on Plasmodium berghei-infected male Sprague[ndash]Dawley rats and effects on blood glucose and renal electrolyte handling

      ea0031p203
    • Altered mitochondrial dynamics in obesity: redressing the balance through bariatric surgery?

      ea0031p204
    • Irisin as a central regulator in energy homeostasis?

      ea0031p205
    • Ileal interposition with diverted sleeve gastrectomy for treatment of type 2 diabetes

      ea0031p206
    • Polycystic ovary syndrome has no independent effect on vascular, inflammatory or thrombotic markers when matched for obesity

      ea0031p207
    • Leptin in serum and vitreous humor, and retinal ob mRNA, in human diabetes

      ea0031p208
    • The endocrine and metabolic characteristics of a large Bardet[ndash]Biedl syndrome clinic population

      ea0031p209
    • Maternal B12 insufficiency predicts neonate's metabolic risk factors

      ea0031p210
    • The use of GLP-1 receptor agonists to manage unwanted weight gain in patients with 'hypothalamic' obesity secondary to structural pituitary pathology

      ea0031p211
    • The public distress domain of quality of life correlates directly and independently with BMI in pre-operative morbidly obese patients awaiting metabolic surgery

      ea0031p212
    • Pregestational BMI predicts neonatal hypoglycemia in women with gestational diabetes

      ea0031p213
    • Effectiveness of bariatric surgery in women with and without polycystic ovarian syndrome

      ea0031p214
    • Octreotide therapy of chronic urticaria and angioedema after gastric bypass procedure

      ea0031p215
    • Prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency in severely obese patients seeking bariatric surgery

      ea0031p216
    • Appetite regulation during a 6-month military tour to Afghanistan

      ea0031p217
    • Weight loss after bariatric surgery in women of childbearing age

      ea0031p218
    • Eating more quickly heightens overall systemic exposure to glucose and NEFA in the post-prandial phase, irrespective of energy expenditure in obese women

      ea0031p219
    • Hepatic 11[beta]-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 is elevated following weight loss secondary to bariatric surgery

      ea0031p220
    • Brown adipose tissue identification in an adult human using IDEAL MRI

      ea0031p221
    • Vitamin D supplementation as influenced by diabetic therapies

      ea0031p222
    • Association of the incidence of type 1 diabetes with markers of infection and antibiotic susceptibility at country level

      ea0031p223
    • A pilot study of 25-hydroxy vitamin D level in type 2 diabetes mellitus with diabetic retinopathy

      ea0031p224
    • Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in patients attending the National Severe Insulin Resistance Service

      ea0031p225
    • A study of serum osteocalcin level in women with gestational diabetes mellitus

      ea0031p226
    • Short term calorie restriction: effects on endocrine markers of nutritional status

      ea0031p227
    • The development of a structured education programme to improve cardiovascular risk in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (SUCCESS Study)

      ea0031p228
    • Hypogonadism in males with type 2 diabetes mellitus

      ea0031p229
    • Obesity-related hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism: recovery of normal pituitary[ndash]gonadal axis function following bariatric surgery

      ea0031p230
    • Risk assessment of adult residents in ile-ife, South-Western Nigeria for type 2 diabetes mellitus

      ea0031p231
    • Adrenal insufficiency post bariatric surgery

      ea0031p232
    • Pregnancy outcome in a patient with lipodystrophy and type 2 diabetes

      ea0031p233
    • Impaired iron status in severely obese bariatric surgery candidates is multifactorial

      ea0031p234
    • What lies beneath: a case of spontaneous hypoglycaemia or glucose transporter type 1 defect disguised as chronic fatigue?

      ea0031p235
    • Improvement in testosterone post bariatric surgery

      ea0031p236
    • Prevalence and associated risks for metabolic syndrome in nigerians with type 2 diabetes mellitus

      ea0031p237
    • Ethnic specific anthropometric values have been used by the International Diabetes Federation to aid in the diagnosis of the metabolic syndrome: no such values are available for Sub-Saharan Africa including Nigeria

      ea0031p238
    • Preoperative characteristics of morbidly obese patients who achieved at least 50% excess weight loss post-metabolic Surgery

      ea0031p239
    • Glycaemic variability: does it make a difference in prediabetes?

      ea0031p240
    • Unusual case of hypoglycaemia in diabetic patient

      ea0031p241
    • withdrawing insulin in a young person

      ea0031p242
    • Re-occurrence of pancreatic insulinoma: an usual cause of hypoglycaemia

      ea0031p243
  • Pituitary
  • • Secretory granule accumulation in anterior pituitary somatotrophs of TPC1 null mice

      ea0031p244
    • Transport features of pituitary folliculostellate cells increase in pregnancy

      ea0031p245
    • Chronic glucocorticoid exposure causes de-novo methylation of genes key to the regulation of the hypothalamic[ndash]pituitary[ndash]adrenal axis

      ea0031p246
    • Polymersomes-mediated siRNA delivery for states of hormone excess

      ea0031p247
    • Transcriptional regulation of C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP/Nppc) and its receptor guanylyl cyclase-B (GC-B/Npr2) in gonadotroph and somatolactotroph cell lines

      ea0031p248
    • 'Invasion signature' revealed by the analysis of AIP positive and AIP mutation negative human pituitary adenomas

      ea0031p249
    • Maternal vocalisation as an effective priming method for oxytocin in young adults

      ea0031p250
    • Altitude acclimatization: plasma AVP response and physiological changes

      ea0031p251
    • Craniopharyngiomas and Wnt signalling pathways

      ea0031p252
    • In vivo characterisation of skeletal muscle metabolism in GH deficient adults using phosphorus-31 magnetic resonance spectroscopy

      ea0031p253
    • Creation of a locus-specific database for AIP mutations

      ea0031p254
    • High prevalence of pituitary dysfunction following blast traumatic brain injury: results from the UK Blast Injury Outcome Study of Armed Forces Personnel (BIOSAP)

      ea0031p255
    • Correlation of clinical smell test and magnetic resonance imaging of olfactory system in idiopathig hypogonadotropic hypogonadism

      ea0031p256
    • Endocrine remission of Cushing's disease after endoscopic trans-sphenoidal surgery: Retrospective review of a single centre experience

      ea0031p257
    • Prevalence of familial isolated pituitary adenomas

      ea0031p258
    • Short-term (3 months) compared to long-term response to somatostatin analogues in acromegaly

      ea0031p259
    • Incidental pituitary haemorrhage is common in prolactin-secreting macroadenoma especially in women

      ea0031p260
    • Ophtalmological, endocrine, and neurological complications in giant male prolactinomas.

      ea0031p261
    • Endocrine and radiological abnormalities in empty sella syndrome

      ea0031p262
    • 11C-methionine PET[ndash]CT co-registered with volume MRI identifies residual functioning tumour in acromegaly

      ea0031p263
    • A retrospective cohort study of patients with hyperprolactinaemia

      ea0031p264
    • Examining the distribution of abdominal fat in GH deficiency using magnetic resonance imaging

      ea0031p265
    • Long-term results after treatment of craniopharyngioma: experience with 46 adult patients

      ea0031p266
    • Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion and treatment with tolvaptan: a case series

      ea0031p267
    • Hyponatraemia assessment and outcomes in acute medically ill patients

      ea0031p268
    • Inside acromegaly: a pilot study for recruiting focus groups using social media

      ea0031p269
    • Pituitary apoplexy: a case series

      ea0031p270
    • An unusual cause of testosterone deficiency

      ea0031p271
    • Rare case of round blue cell pituitary tumour with probable hypothalamic involvement

      ea0031p272
    • Pituitary abscess: a rare cause of pituitary mass lesion

      ea0031p273
    • Hypopituitarism presenting with features of stiff person syndrome

      ea0031p274
    • Snake bite and hypopituitarism: ignorance or incompetence?

      ea0031p275
    • TSH-secreting pituitary adenoma identified in pregnancy: management of an unusual case

      ea0031p276
    • A rising TSH in a patient with known TSHoma does not necessarily indicate recurrence

      ea0031p277
    • Unusual presentation of acromegaly and functioning pituitary gonadotrophinoma (FSHoma)

      ea0031p278
    • Pituitary apoplexy and aortic dissection

      ea0031p279
    • Isolated central hypoadrenalism as the sole manifestation of presumed neurosarcoidosis

      ea0031p280
    • Etiology and outcome of hyponatremia due to pituitary insufficiency in a tertiary endocrine center

      ea0031p281
    • Spontaneous resolution of pituitary Cushing's

      ea0031p282
    • A case of complex neurodevelopmental abnormality causing asymptomatic SIADH

      ea0031p283
    • Hypopituitarism with visual field loss is not always an adenoma

      ea0031p284
    • Rapidly progressive pituitary carcinoma in a young female

      ea0031p285
    • Growth of a meningioma in a female patient with uncontrolled congenital adrenal hyperplasia

      ea0031p286
    • Finally we know! 'It comes from your pituitary'

      ea0031p287
    • Inflammatory markers in polycystic ovarian syndrome and their association with cardiovascular risk factors

      ea0031p288
    • Maternal corticosterone regulates amino acid allocation to fetal growth in mice

      ea0031p289
    • BMP4 induces terminal differentiation of primary trophoblast cells and increases chorionic gonadotrophin secretion

      ea0031p290
    • Is diethylstilboestrol an endocrine disruptor in the developing human fetal testis? Effects of DES exposure using a xenograft approach

      ea0031p291
    • Perinatal origins of adult Leydig cells and function: role of developmental androgens

      ea0031p292
    • Pulsatile GnRH signaling to ERK: relevance of pulse duration and frequency

      ea0031p293
    • Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy levels of sulfated progesterone metabolites downregulate hepatic LXR[alpha]

      ea0031p294
    • DNA methyltransferase 3a, 3b and 3L expression in fetal germ cells and its modulation

      ea0031p295
    • Dissecting the prokineticin receptor dimerization interface: a role in kallmann sindrome?

      ea0031p296
    • Tocopherol interacts with [beta]-mimetic effect in reproductive and respiratory tracts in the rat

      ea0031p297
    • Steroid regulation of gene and protein expression of osteopontin and [alpha]v[beta]3 integrin in ovine endometrium

      ea0031p298
    • The effect of mTOR blockers on japanese quail ovarian granulosa cell functions

      ea0031p299
    • KATP channels are involved in the tocolytic effect of [beta]2 agonists in pregnant rat

      ea0031p300
    • Possible role of fetuin-B in the preterm delivery in the rat

      ea0031p301
    • Effect of t-2 toxin and combination of t-2 toxin with resveratrol and mc2183 on ovarian cells of japanese quails

      ea0031p302
    • In vitro effect of 4-nonylphenol and 17[beta]-estradiol on bovine spermatozoa

      ea0031p303
    • Effects of iron on the steroidogenesis of human adrenocarcinoma (nci-h295r) cell line in vitro

      ea0031p304
    • Gaining a better understanding of individual experiences of weight regulation in polycystic ovary syndrome

      ea0031p305
    • Regulation of LH/CG receptor signaling in human endometrium and perturbations in recurrent pregnancy loss

      ea0031p306
    • Kisspeptin-54 administration stimulates LH pulsatility in women with hypothalamic amenorrhoea

      ea0031p307
    • Effect of ethnicity on the clinical presentations of women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a 20-year retrospective cohort study

      ea0031p308
    • A case of persistent Mullerian duct syndrome

      ea0031p309
    • Pubertal induction in males with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism using long-acting intramuscular testosterone undecanoate 1g depot (Nebido)

      ea0031p310
    • White matter changes on magnetic resonance imaging in Klinefelter syndrome

      ea0031p311
    • Metformin treatment of PCOS: St George's Hospital Endocrine Unit Clinical Experience

      ea0031p312
    • Myotonic dystrophy: a rare cause of primary hypogonadism

      ea0031p313
    • Abstract unavailable

      ea0031p314
  • Steroids
  • • 11[beta]HSD1 deficiency increases susceptibility to liver fibrosis by activating hepatic stellate cells

      ea0031p315
    • Validation of CYP11B1 and CYP11B2 regulation by microRNA-24

      ea0031p316
    • Molecular mechanisms underlying the anti-inflammatory properties of 5[alpha]-tetrahydrocorticosterone

      ea0031p317
    • Novel loci for familial autoimmune Addison's disease detected by linkage analysis

      ea0031p318
    • Identification of a duplicated P450 side-chain cleavage enzyme (zCyp11a2) defines initiation and maintenance of steroidogenesis in zebrafish

      ea0031p319
    • Glucocorticoids enhance insulin sensitivity in human hepatocytes

      ea0031p320
    • The zebrafish ferredoxin orthologue Fdx1b is essential for the redox regulation of interrenal steroidogenesis in larvae and adult fish

      ea0031p321
    • Steroid profile response to angiotensin II and ACTH in normal volunteer under high and low salt conditions

      ea0031p322
    • Mechanisms of estrogen receptor transcription in breast cancer

      ea0031p323
    • Continuous measurement of free cortisol profiles

      ea0031p324
    • Dual role of TTC5 cofactor in GR-mediated gene expression

      ea0031p325
    • Identification of a novel CYP11B1 isoform in human adrenocortical cells

      ea0031p326
    • The role of anti-ACTH1[ndash]24 antibodies in synacthen-related adverse events

      ea0031p327
    • 19F-magnetic resonance spectroscopy as a tool to quantify 11[beta]-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity in vivo

      ea0031p328
    • P450 side-chain cleavage enzyme autoantibodies in canine Addison's disease

      ea0031p329
    • Quantitative analysis of canrenone in plasma by triple quadrupole mass spectrometry

      ea0031p330
    • Quality of life relates to glucocorticoid treatment regimen, adiposity and insulin resistance in adults with congenital adrenal hyperplasia: UK Congenital adrenal Hyperplasia Adult Study Executive (CaHASE)

      ea0031p331
    • Truncal fat distribution is associated with enhanced glucocorticoid excretion, increased 5[alpha]-reductase activity and higher insulin resistance independent of BMI in women with polycystic ovary syndrome

      ea0031p332
    • Revival of adrenal function in established autoimmune Addison's disease

      ea0031p333
    • Range of urinary steroid metabolite ratios in children undergoing investigation for suspected disorder of steroid synthesis

      ea0031p334
    • Gonadotrophic response to operational deployment in Afghanistan

      ea0031p335
    • Reversal of dilated cardiomyopathy in a patient with Cushing's syndrome after a successful adrenalectomy

      ea0031p336
    • Osteoporosis prophylaxis in medical patients taking corticosteroids

      ea0031p337
    • A 'Heavy' price of beauty therapy

      ea0031p338
    • Spot urine cortisol: creatinine ratio: a useful screening test for patients with Cushing's syndrome

      ea0031p339
    • Successful use of subcutaneous infusion of cortisol in an adult case of congentital adrenal hyperplasia

      ea0031p340
    • An audit of adrenal venous sampling at University College Hospital, London

      ea0031p341
    • An online survey on awareness regarding steroid therapy and sick day rules

      ea0031p342
    • Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome: adrenal insufficiency

      ea0031p343
    • Feature of acute mineralocorticoid excess from ACTH secreting bronchial tumour

      ea0031p344
    • Cranial diabetes insipidus in a patient with previously cured pregnancy associated adrenal Cushing's syndrome

      ea0031p345
    • ACTH independent bilateral macronodular adrenal hyperplasia presenting as subclinical Cushing's syndrome

      ea0031p346
    • A case of hypocalcaemia in ectopic ACTH production

      ea0031p347
    • Bilateral enlarging adrenal masses: when can we wait in indeterminate lesions?

      ea0031p348
    • Hypokalaemia: a happy outcome

      ea0031p349
    • An interesting adrenal adenoma: is it just androgen producing or coproducing both androgen and cortisol

      ea0031p350
    • An interesting case of adrenal adenoma

      ea0031p351
  • Thyroid
  • • Local regulation of T3 availability in susceptibility to osteoarthritis

      ea0031p352
    • Low frequency of pendrin autoantibodies detected using a radioligand binding assay in patients with autoimmune thyroid disease

      ea0031p353
    • Interferon induced thyrotoxicosis

      ea0031p354
    • Levothyroxine therapy affects cerebral blood flow and fatigue in subclinical hypothyroidism

      ea0031p355
    • Thyroid incidentaloma incidence and malignant prevalence in F-18-FDG-PET/CT imaging

      ea0031p356
    • Vitamin D status in autoimmune hypothyroidism

      ea0031p357
    • Prevalence of anti-thyroglobulin antibodies, their prognostic significance and impact on patient care in a cohort of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer

      ea0031p358
    • Factors prompting thyroid function testing in hospitalised patients with thyroid dysfunction: analysis of a large hospital database

      ea0031p359
    • Homozygous resistance to thyroid hormone: can cardiac complications be prevented?

      ea0031p360
    • Factors predicting the development of hypothyroidism after radioactive iodine treatment

      ea0031p361
    • Does closer monitoring of thyroid function post radioiodine reduce the severity of hypothyroidism when first detected?

      ea0031p362
    • Interferon-induced thyroid dysfunction: a case series

      ea0031p363
    • Clinical performance of fine-needle aspiration biopsy of thyroid nodules in a tertiary referral centre

      ea0031p364
    • The challenge of managing refractory amiodarone-induced Graves' disease in resistance to thyroid hormone

      ea0031p365
    • A rapidly enlarging neck lump and Horner's sign: lessons from a novel case

      ea0031p366
    • The presence of thyroid peroxidase antibodies in Graves' disease is predictive of disease duration and relapse rates

      ea0031p367
    • Managing Graves' disease: management involving endocrine nurse led service: experience from DGH

      ea0031p368
    • Thyroid nodules, FNA cytology and thyroid cancer in Malta

      ea0031p369
    • False positive pentagastrin stimulation test in a family with medullary thyroid cancer

      ea0031p370
    • Factors affecting choice of definitive therapy in patients with relapsed thyrotoxicosis

      ea0031p371
    • Levothyroxine absorption testing: a 5-day (usual dose) test as an alternative to the 1-day (1000 [mu]g) test

      ea0031p372
    • Four cases of thyroid carcinoma presenting in childhood: 15 years experience in a National Tertiary Referral Centre

      ea0031p373
    • Acute transient thyrotoxicosis following intensity-modulated radiotherapy to the neck

      ea0031p374
    • Evaluation of fine needle aspiration and ultrasound in diagnostic assessment of thyroid nodules

      ea0031p375
    • Thyroid dermopathy: an extreme variant

      ea0031p376
    • Too low, too high: is it the Roux-en-Y? Fluctuating thyroid function post obesity surgery

      ea0031p377
    • Not all raised T4 needed treatment!

      ea0031p378
    • A case of metastatic papillary thyroid carcinoma presenting with pleural, pulmonary and bone metastases

      ea0031p379
    • Raised TSH: a diagnostic conundrum!

      ea0031p380
    • Bilateral thyroid cysts: an important association not to forget?

      ea0031p381
    • An unusual association with autoimmune hypothyroidism

      ea0031p382
    • Case report: when measured free T4 and free T3 may be misleading. Interference with free thyroid hormones measurements on Roche and Siemens platforms

      ea0031p383
    • Management of thyrotoxic crisis in a brittle asthmatic

      ea0031p384
    • Audit of use of radioactive iodine in the treatment of thyrotoxicosis at the Bristol royal infirmary (2008[ndash]2009)

      ea0031p385
    • Successful pregnancy outcomes with thyroxine treatment in euthyroid women with positive thyroid autoantibodies and recurrent miscarriage

      ea0031p386
    • Carbimazole induced cholestatic hepatitis

      ea0031p387
    • Myxedema Coma: an uncommon presentation of a common thyroid problem

      ea0031p388