Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is an autoimmune thyroid disorder. Being a chronic inflammatory process, thyroidits has been recognised as a risk factor for thyroid lymphoma. We present a case of a female with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, who suffered an out of hospital cardiac arrest and later on died in hospital.Case report: A 30-year-old lady with a background history of Down’s syndrome was referred to endocrinology clinic in 2003 with ...