Prolonged fever in patients can be a diagnostic challenge. Clinicians generally consider infectious diseases, malignant diseases and collagen vascular diseases as possible causes of pyrexia of unknown origin (PUO). Even after extensive evaluation as many as 15 percent of patients with prolonged fever may remain undiagnosed. This case report describes subacute thyroiditis as a cause of prolonged...

Graves's disease (diffuse toxic goitre) Toxic nodular goitre Multinodular (Plummer's disease) Uninodular (toxic adenoma) Nodular goitre with Graves's disease Excess thyroid stimulating hormone Pituitary tumour Choriocarcinoma and hydatidiform mole Embryonal testicular carcinoma Other malignancy (?) Extraneous thyroid hormone Exogenous: Intentional factitious Overenthusiastic therapy During T-3 ...

In contrast to chronic or subacute thyroiditis, Graves' disease rarely complicates IFN-alpha therapy for chronic viral C hepatitis. We report the case of a 51-year-old man in whom IFN-alpha treatment was followed by recurrence of Graves' disease 10 years after thyroidectomy was performed and the patient was declared cured. Despite severe thyrotoxicosis, combined IFN-alpha and ribavirin therapy ...

Searchable abstracts of presentations at key conferences in endocrinology ISSN 1470-3947 (print) | 1479-6848 (online)

A 60-year-old woman presented with a neck mass and underwent fine needle aspiration of a left thyroid nodule. During this time, she had been injected with hCG for weight loss. Soon after, she developed rapid diffuse thyroid growth with pain. She was ultimately diagnosed with thyrotoxicosis due to postaspiration subacute thyroiditis and subsequently became hypothyroid. This condition is rare in ...