Meeting
Abstract Number: 586
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Introduction: Thyrotoxic crisis is rare and presents as a life-threatening exacerbation of hyperthyroidism. It can have a myriad of manifestations affecting multiple organ systems. The mortality rate is as high as 30% even with treatment. Thyrotoxic crisis is usually precipitated by acute illness, surgery especially on the thyroid, or radioiodine treatment of a patient with partially treated […]