Endocrine Abstracts

Case presentation: A 40-year-old Caribbean woman presented with sudden onset palpitations. She described 3 months of progressive shortness of breath, non-productive cough and 7kg weight loss. She denied chest pain, fevers or night sweats, but reported increased stool frequency, gritty eyes, and occasional visual blurring. She appeared cachectic and had a fine tremor, left eye proptosis and a visible pulsatile goitre. She was afebrile, tachypnoeic, hypoxic, hypotensive with fas...

Case History: A 23-year-old Bengali woman with a 2-year history of Graves’ disease presented to the endocrine day unit with a widespread, pruritic, vasculitic-looking rash. She was treated with Carbimazole since diagnosis but was poorly compliant. One month prior to presentation, her Carbimazole dose was increased from 20 mg daily to 60 mg daily, as she remained biochemically thyrotoxic (Free T4 79.9 pmol/l, T3 34.8 pmol/l and TSH < 0.01 mU/l). The rash started on her lower...