ea0028p10 | Bone | SFEBES2012
De Silva Akila
, De Silva Sarah-Jane
, Meeran Karim
A 27 year old lady with Graves thyrotoxicosis (fT4 50.3 pmol/L, fT3 25.0 pmol/L, TSH<0.05 mU/L) failed to respond adequately to carbimazole (40 mg BD) or propylthiouracil (250 mg QDS). Three months later, following 10 days of potassium iodide to render her biochemically euthyroid, she underwent a total thyroidectomy. Pre-operative bone profile revealed Ca(c) 2.34 mmol/L (NR 2.152.60 mmol/L), phosphate 1.36 mmol/L (NR 0.81.4 mmol/L), PTH 3.4 pmol/L (NR 1.1...