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ABOUT

Dr Greg Hough is a healthcare practitioner specialising as a Physician Endocrinologist from Pietermaritzburg in KZN. His practice offers complete Diabetes and Endocrine care. Dr Hough is particularly interested in Rare Diseases in addition to General Endocrinology.

Dr Hough completed his MBChB at the University of Cape Town in 1996. In 2004 he obtained his FCP while working at the UCT/Groote Schuur Hospital complex. His certificate in endocrinology was obtained in 2007 while working at the University of Stellenbosch/Tygerberg Hospital complex.

Dr Hough has 15 years experience as an Endocrinologist in Private practice. His current private practice was established in 2023. Private practice allows him to operate at the cutting edge of medical practice using new drugs and diagnostic tools as they become available.

He enjoys the unique challenge each patient presents him with. Nothing gives him greater joy and job satisfaction than learning and being able to apply new information and seeing its benefits in his patients.

"I am interested, and I care." - Dr G Hough

Services

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  • Type 1 Diabetes
    • Experience and expertise in the set up and use of insulin pumps
    • Experience and expertise in the set up and use of Continuous glucose monitors (CGM)
    • Experience and expertise in the use of Hybrid closed loop and closed loop therapies

  • Type 2 Diabetes
  • Gestational Diabetes
  • Mature Onset Diabetes of the Young

  • Idiopathic hypoglycaemia
  • Insulinoma
Glucagonoma

  • Investigation of causes and complications
  • Planning management with available medications
  • Managing Lifestyle changes
  • Very low Calorie Diets
  • Balloons
  • Bariatric surgery

  • Hypercholesterolemia
  • Hypertriglyceridemia
  • Combined hyperlipidaemia

  • Resistant hypertension
  • Investigation and management of Secondary Hypertension

  • Investigation and management

Goitre
Hyperthyroidism

  • Graves disease
  • Toxic multinodular goitre
  • De Quervein's
Hypothyroidism
  • Thyroiditis
  • Surgical
Hashimoto's thyroiditis
Thyroid cancer
Thyroid hormone resistance

Parathyroid gland disorders

  • Primary hyperparathyroidism
  • Secondary hyperparathyroidism
  • Tertiary hyperparathyroidism
  • Hypoparathyroidism
  • Pseudohypoparathyroidism

Parathyroid gland disorders

  • Osteoporosis
  • Paget's disease of bone
  • Rickets
  • Osteomalacia

Posterior pituitary

  • Diabetes insipidus
  • Syndrome of Inappropriate Antidiuretic Hormone (SIADH)
Anterior pituitary
  • Hypopituitarism (or Panhypopituitarism)
  • Pituitary tumours
  • Pituitary adenomos
  • Prolactinoma (or Hyperprolactinemia
  • Acromegaly, gigantism, dwarfism
  • Cushing's disease

Disorders of sex development or intersex disorders

  • Inherited (genetic and chromosomal) disorders
  • Kallmann syndromes
  • Klinefelter syndrome
  • Turner syndrome
  • Acquired disorders
  • Ovarian failure (also known as Premature Menopause)
  • Testicular failure
Disorders of Puberty
  • Delayed puberty
  • Precocious puberty
Menstrual function or fertility disorders
  • Amenorrhea
  • Polycystic ovary syndrome

  • Medical and Hormonal management of patients undergoing Gender Transformation

Multiple endorcrine neoplasia

  • MEN type 1
  • MEN type 2a
  • MEN type 2b
Carcinoid syndrome

  • An unexpected finding on diagnostic imaging, often of endocrine glands

  • Diabetic ketoacidosis
  • Hyperosmolar hyperglycaemic state
  • Hypoglycaemic coma
  • Acute adrenocortical insufficiency
  • Phaeochromocytoma crisis
  • Hypercalcaemic crisis
  • Thyroid storm
  • Myxoedema coma
  • Pituitary apoplexy

  • Inborn errors of metabolism

Contact us

Address

Suite 3, Daymed Health and Wellness Centre
595 Chota Motala Road
Raisethorpe, Pietermaritzburg, 3201

Telephone number

033 001 0870

Consulting times: Monday - Friday: 08:00 - 17:00

Admission rights at the following hospitals: Daymed Hospital Pietermaritzburg | Pietermaritzburg Mediclinic

Contact us

Address

Suite 3, Daymed Health and Wellness Centre
595 Chota Motala Road
Raisethorpe, Pietermaritzburg, 3201

Telephone number

033 001 0870

Email

doctor@drhough.co.za

Consulting times: Monday - Friday: 08:00 - 17:00

Admission rights at the following hospitals:
Daymed Hospital Pietermaritzburg
Pietermaritzburg Mediclinic

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