Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Thionamides are important drugs in the treatment of hyperthyroidism. Despite that, they can be associated with rare but serious complications, which require drug discontinuation.Case report: Sixty-five-year-old woman with Graves’ disease, treated in 2002 with methimazole and in remission until 2012. Recurrence of Graves’ disease was diagnosed in March 2012 and she was started on propylthiouracil (PTU) 150 mg per day. She presented...

Introduction: Subacute thyroiditis is usually a self-limited pathology, possibly of viral aetiology, defined by cervical pain and sometimes systemic symptoms. Its association with autoimmune diseases doesn’t seem to be more frequent than in the general population.Clinical case: Clinical findings of thyrotoxicosis with 3 weeks of evolution associated with anterior cervical pain and fever up to 38 °C. The patient presented with recurrent mouth so...