hrp0084p3-1202 | Thyroid | ESPE2015

A Curious Case of Thyrotoxic Crisis and Lower Extremity Weakness in a 15 year-Old Female with Graves’ Disease

Dumin Magdalena , Afzal Khalid , Macmillan Carol , Koren Dorit

Background: Thyrotoxic crisis is a rare, emergent complication of paediatric hyperthyroidism. A rare neurological manifestation of thyrotoxicosis is thyroid myopathy.Objective and hypotheses: We report the case of a female teenager who presented to the Emergency Department with thyrotoxic crisis and lower extremity weakness. Our objective is to discuss the course of thyrotoxic crisis and review potential rare neurological manifestations of thyrotoxicosis...