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ea0081ep1213 | Late Breaking | ECE2022

Refractory graves’ disease dramatically responded to adjunctive colestyramine, case report and literature review.

Bilal Jajah Mohammad , Wong Heng Chun , Jayaweera Jayamalee

Background: GravesÂ’ Disease usually responds well to medical treatment with thionamides. However, in some cases, it fails to respond to this treatment, even at maximum doses. A few reported cases have shown that colestyramine helps to restore normal thyroid function when added to the ongoing anti-thyroidal medications in refractory thyrotoxicosis. We reported a case of relapsing refractory GravesÂ’ disease, in which colestyramine has helped to restore normal thyroid f...