Endocrine Abstracts

A 77 year old female was admitted two weeks after an out-patient CT Pulmonary Angiogram showed a subsegmental pulmonary embolism and retrosternal goitre. History was of ten days of confusion, breathlessness, diarrhoea and reduced intake. On admission, she was febrile, tachypnoeic and in new, rate controlled, AF. Burch-Wartofsky Point Scale: 45, this being highly suggestive of a thyroid storm. TFTs were normal one year prior. Thyroid USS showed a multi-nodular goitre. She was c...