ESPE Abstracts

22-month girl presented with 3 days of cough and fevers, 2 weeks of rhinorrhoea and frequent “clearing of throat” and 6 months of diaphoresis and growth spurt. On examination, she was flushed and diaphoretic with a large goitre. She had a low grade fever (T=37.9) with signs of cardiac compromise (bounding pulse sinus tachycardia [HR=200bpm]. She was hypertensive [BP=145/90mmHg] and tachypnoeic [RR=36/min] with respiratory distress and right-sided crepitations. She ha...