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Pituitary Day Monday 2nd February 2015.


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Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

08:30 Registration

09:25 Welcome and Introduction Dr Stephanie Baldeweg, Consultant Endocrinologist University College London Hospitals

09:30 Key note lecture: The Pituitary in 2014

Dr Andrew Toogood, Consultant Endocrinologist University Hospitals Birmingham

10:00 Forum 1 – Case Presentations – Hypophysitis

Chairs: Dr Mark Vanderpump and Mr Michael Powell

Case 1 – Hypophysitis and Aseptic Meningitis, An unusual combination: A Case report

Authors: Myuri Moorthy, Aunkul Garg, Chidambaram Nethaji, North Middlesex Hospital

Case 2 – 3-for-1: Pituitary apoplexy, hypophysitis and an adenoma – but which one is it?

Authors: K McCullough, N Hill, R Nair, N Mendoza, B Jones, A Mehta, A Pambakian, E Hatfield1, K Meeran, N Martin.

Charing Cross Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Case 3 – A case of recurrent lymphocytic hypophysitis

Authors: A Dimakopoulou, K Vithian,

Colchester University Hospital

Case 4 – Case report: Challenges of lymphocytic hypophysitis

Authors: Y. Ling, S. Seechurn, S. Zac-Varghese, M. Kostoula, B. Jones, A. Mehta, S. Robinson

St Mary’s hospital, Imperial College healthcare NHS Trust

Charing Cross Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

11:00 Coffee and Posters

11:30 The pituitary gland and the eye

Dr Gordon Plant, Consultant Neurologist

National Hospital for Neurology and

Neurosurgery

12:00 Forum 2 – Case Presentations – Pituitary disease in pregnancy Chairs: Dr James Ahlquist and Miss Joan Grieve Case 5 – Use of Medical Therapy in a Pregnant Patient with Acromegaly Authors: P Jacob, NB Hashim, WM Drake

Case 6 – Pituitary enlargement in pregnancy presenting with visual field defects and interesting pituitary imaging

Authors: Hsiu L Yap, Edouard Mills, Maura Moriarty, Ana Pokrajac, Thomas Galliford Watford Hospital

Case 7 – Pituitary apoplexy in early pregnancy resulting in partial loss of the pituitary function

Authors: M Kostoula, S Robinson, A Lodhia, C Yu

Case 8 – Interpretation of dynamic test results in secondary hypocortisolism post pituitary surgery and hydrocortisone replacement doses

Authors: Dr Aikaterini Theodoraki, Mr Christopher McAlpine, Dr Anne Dawnay, Miss Joan Grieve, Mr Neil Dorward, Mr Michael Powell, Dr Stephanie Baldeweg University College London Hospitals, National Hospital for Neurology and

Neurosurgery

13:00 Lunch and Posters

14:00 The Pituitary Foundation

14:10 Forum 3 – Case Presentations – Pituitary

Chairs: Prof Gerard Conway and Mr Neil Dorward

Case 9 – Radiological Landmarks in Endoscopic Trans-sphenoidal Hypophysectomy

Authors: Simon Carr, Vicky Twigg, Saurabh Sinha, Showkat Mirza Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Case 10 – Not all Pituitary Tumours are Adenomas: A Rare Case of a Pituicytoma

Authors: Archana Dhere, ST6 Diabetes & Endocrinology, Olaf Ansorge, Consultant Neuropathologist, Simon Cudlip, Consultant Neurosurgeon, Ashley Grossman,

John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford

Case 11 – A case of pituitary functional recovery in a patient with Langerhan’s Cell Histiocytosis following chemotherapy with chlorodeoxyadenosine and Mercaptopurine.

Authors: Andrew Ghabbour, Roselle Herring, David Russell-Jones

Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Case 12 – Hypothalamic dysfunction associated with the novel anti-cancer agent programmed death ligand-1

Authors: N.Tshuma, S.Dhalen, K.Constatinou, K.Gungunah, S.Jacobsberg, W.M. Drake, J . Evanson T.Powels

Barts Hospital, London

15:10 Pituitary papers that changed or will change my practice (not my CV) - Prof Marta Korbonits – Barts and the London Hospital –

Miss Catherine Gilkes – The Walton Centre, Liverpool

15:40 Tea, Coffee and Posters

16:00 Key note lecture: Pituitary function after traumatic brain injury Dr Tony Goldstone, Consultant Endocrinologist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

16:30 Forum 4 – Case Presentations – Acromegaly

Chairs: Prof Pierre-Marc Bouloux and Mr Michael Powell

Case 13 – An interesting case of Pituitary Adenoma with Neuronal Choristoma (PANCH); an uncommon pituitary tumour Authors: S Hameed, N Mendoza, B Jones, A Mehta, B Field, K Meeran, N Martin, E Hatfield, F Roncaroli. Charing Cross Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust East Surrey Hospital, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

Case 14 – 17 years an acromegalic… Authors: Olympia Koulouri, Andrew Powlson, Andrea Steuwe, Dan Gillett, Sarah Heard, Andrew Hoole, Neil Donnelly, Nagui Antoun, HK Cheow, Richard Mannion, Mark Gurnell,

University of Cambridge & Addenbrooke’s Hospital

Case 15 – Complications of Long-Standing Uncontrolled Acromegaly and its Management Authors: Ellenbogen JR, Daousi C, Gilkes CE.

17:15 Poster and presentation prizes Dr Stephanie Baldeweg, Consultant Endocrinologist University College London Hospital

17:30 Close