Endocrine Abstracts

We present 2 patients who developed severe thyrotoxic exacerbation following radioiodine. The first treated by conventional antithyroid therapy, the second was plasma exchanged.Patient A aged 39 male with FT3=28.2 pmol/l (2.5–5.3) FT4=49.0 pmol/l (9.1–23.8) TSH=<0.01 mU/l (0.32–5.0),a large diffuse goitre, thyroid eye disease and asthmatic on inhaled ventolin. He received 3.5 years of carbimazole 40 mg and thyroxine 100 mcg. Thyroxine ...