Endocrine Abstracts

Background: It was noted in the last few years there was an increased incidence of vasculitis and vasculitic reactions in patients with thyrotoxicosis. Those vasculitic reactions ranged from simple purpuric skin lesion to sever intra-alveolar hemorrhage and even to Steven Johnson Syndrome, Most of those vasculitic reactions occurred in patients receiving propylthiouracil or methimazole. But many other cases were detected in thyrotoxic patients even be...