Endocrine Abstracts

Levothyroxine, the standard therapy for hypothyroidism, is usually well tolerated and very few cases of true allergy to levothyroxine have been reported to date. In these cases mechanisms have not been conclusively identified but have been hypothesized to be allergies to excipients. Here we report a rare occurrence of levothyroxine allergy and the effectiveness of desensitization. A 56-year-old lady with no previous history of allergies required a total thyroidectomy for Grave...