?Division of Endocrinology
Services
- A full range of endocrine services with a major patient referral basis from Western Cape, Eastern Cape and as far away as Namibia.
- HPCSA accredited training site for internal medicine registrars and sub-specialty accreditation in endocrinology.
- Original clinical research and international contract research
- Our division has a special clinical interest in:
- Pituitary disease
- Gestational Diabetes
- Osteoporosis
- Neuroendocrine Tumours
- ?Thyroid disease
Inpatient services:
- The Endocrine Unit has 12 dedicated beds for the admission and workup of patients with diabetes mellitus or other endocrinopathies.
- ?We have access to dietetic services for the inpatient dietary assessment of all diabetic patients
Outpatient clinics:
- Type 1 diabetes mellitus clinic (weekly)
- Type 2 diabetes mellitus clinic (weekly)?
- ?Post-partum diabetes clinic (twice a month)?
- New and urgent endocrinopathy referrals (twice a month)
- General Endocrine Clinic (weekly)
Metabolic Bone Services
- ??Bone Densitometry: The Division offers a DXA imaging service for hospital as well as clinical trial patients.
- DXA is the only reliable and reproducible method to evaluate bone mineral density in patients and is an essential part of the diagnostic workup of osteoporosis patients.
- The Bone Density (DXA) Facility in the Endocrine Unit provides an extensive service to numerous departments within this hospital and to secondary hospitals in the Western Cape.
- We are equipped to do lumbar spine, hip and forearm bone mineral density measurements as well as lateral vertebral assessments.
- Total body composition measurements are also available at our facility.
- We are trained to do small animal bone mineral density and body composition scans.
- Contract and academic research projects involving animal and human bone mineral density and body composition measurements make use of our facility
