Endocrine Abstracts

A 20-year-old man presented to his general practitioner in 1990 with 4-months history of general malaise. He was clinically and biochemically thyrotoxic. Carbimazole was started but the patient stopped treatment on his own after 2 months. Two years later he was referred to our department with severe thyrotoxicosis marked by lethargy, shaking, palpitations and weight loss (FT4 116.6 pmol/l (reference range 10–24.5 pmol/l) TT3 8.8 nmol/l (1.0–2.5 ...