Searchable abstracts of presentations at key conferences in endocrinology

ea0031p115 | Clinical practice/governance and case reports | SFEBES2013

Potential role of antituberculosis treatment as cause of severe hypocalcaemia immediately following total thyroidectomy

Kankara Chenchi Reddy , Barrett George , Derry David , Flanagan Daniel , Malik Tass

We report potential effects of antituberculosis (TB) treatment on vitamin D metabolism in the immediate postoperative period following total thyroidectomy.A 50-year woman of Chinese origin was incidentally found to have papillary thyroid carcinoma with local nodal metastasis following FDG–PET imaging done to assess nature of lung nodules on chest X-ray and CT chest. The nature of lung lesion was uncertain and commenced on empirical TB treatment (fou...