Endocrine Abstracts

A 35-year lady with Grave’s disease and brittle asthma presented to the Endocrinology team with symptoms and signs of thyrotoxic crisis. She was not on any anti-thyroid medication as she had previous suffered a severe rash in response to carbimazole, and profound gastrointestinal disturbance with propylthiouracil. It was suggested that she consider radioiodine to control her condition, but as a single parent with young children she was not prepared to undergo the isolatio...

We report potential effects of antituberculosis (TB) treatment on vitamin D metabolism in the immediate postoperative period following total thyroidectomy.A 50-year woman of Chinese origin was incidentally found to have papillary thyroid carcinoma with local nodal metastasis following FDG–PET imaging done to assess nature of lung nodules on chest X-ray and CT chest. The nature of lung lesion was uncertain and commenced on empirical TB treatment (fou...