Endocrinology & Diabetes

Clinical service overview

We specialise in:

• All aspects of general endocrinology (pituitary, thyroid, adrenal, calcium and metabolic disorders and gonadal disease)
• Diabetes - acute and chronic care, and diabetes education
• Endocrine emergencies (diabetes, pituitary, thyroid, adrenal, calcium)
• Foot disease in diabetes: vascular, neuropathic, acute infections and ulceration
• Osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease
• Paget's disease evaluation and treatment
• Thyroid nodule and goitre evaluation and therapy including fine needle biopsy
• Thyroid cancer management
• Endocrine hypertension evaluation and therapy in suspected renovascular disease and hyperaldosteronism
• Day bed facility for investigation and treatment of endocrine disease including specialised procedures e.g. adrenal vein sampling, petrosal sinus sampling, IV bisphosphonate therapy of osteoporosis & Paget's disease, testosterone implants for male hypogonadism, oestrogen implants for menopause (HRT)
• Insulin pump therapy commencement and continuous glucose monitoring

Exclusion criteria

This service does not routinely offer treatment for the following:

• Patients who are being treated for the same condition at another Victorian public hospital
• Children under 18 years of age

• Obesity where there is no suspected underlying endocrine condition
• Impaired glucose tolerance only 
• Diabetes well controlled on diet alone
• NIDDM with good control and without complications
• Patients requiring dietary and exercise advice, or blood pressure and lipid assessment alone
• Patients whose primary problem is not directly related to their diabetes

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