Carbimazole-related agranulocytosis in pregnancy - A case report

• Main Authors: Lim, S.S., Shireene, V., Vijay, A., Tan, T.B.A., Pendek, Rokiah, Chan, S.P.
• Format: Article
• Published: Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya 2007
• Subjects: R Medicine (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/24498/; https://jummec.um.edu.my/issue/view/720/Vol.10%2C%20Issue%201%2C%202007

We report a 33-year-old Malay lady who presented with fever, tonsillitis and pharyngitis a month after initiation of antithyroid therapy (carbimazole 15 mg tds) for thyrotoxicosis by her general practitioner. She was still clinically and biochemically thyrotoxic but not in thyroid storm. At that tim...