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Title: Carbimazole-induced exudative pleural effusions
Authors: Cardona Attard, Carol D.
Gruppetta, Mark
Vassallo, Josanne
Vella, Sandro
Keywords: Carbimazole -- Side effects
Pleural effusions -- Case studies
Dyspnea
Issue Date: 2016
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group LTD
Citation: Cardona Attard, C. D., Gruppetta, M., Vassallo, J., & Vella, S. (2016). Carbimazole-induced exudative pleural effusions. BMJ Case Reports, 2016.
Abstract: Carbimazole, an antithyroid drug, is associated with a significant number of side effects, but pleuropulmonary complications are rare. We report the case of a 42-year-old Caucasian man who developed dyspnoea secondary to bilateral exudative pleural effusions while on carbimazole therapy. Extensive investigations, including a vasculitic screen, ruled out other potential causes for this patient's clinical presentation. This patient's pleural effusions gradually resolved within a few months of stopping carbimazole therapy, suggesting a role for the latter in the aetiopathogenesis of his presentation. Clinicians should consider discontinuing treatment with carbimazole and introducing alternative antithyroid therapy in this setting, once other potential causes of a pleural effusion have been systematically ruled out.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/86752
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