Case Report: A 42 year old lady was admitted with a sixweek history of increasing shortness of breath. She described pleuritic chest pain and had recently noticed ankle oedema. She had no symptoms typical of thyrotoxicosis. There was no relevant past medical history. One week before hospitalisation she was found to have markedly elevated thyroid function tests with Free T4 >100 pmol/L (NR 11-21...

Acute ototoxicity is a rare but important complication of antithyroid drugs. Although previous cases have been reported in the medical literature, these cases occurred in younger patients with serological evidence of lupus-like syndrome with positive antidouble-stranded deoxyribonucleic acid and antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies. We describe the case of a 68-year-old Caucasian male who deve...