Attempted suicide with levothyroxine in an adolescent girl.

Huseyin Anil Korkmaz, Ceyhun Dizdarer, Filiz Hazan, Utku Karaarslan

Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Izmir Dr. Behcet Uz Children Disease and Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey. drkorkmazanil@hotmail.com

Journal of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism : JPEM 2013

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Attempted suicide with levothyroxine is very rare and has been described only in a few case reports. Although acute accidental or intentional overdoses of thyroid hormones can lead to marked elevations in serum T4 levels, many children who take as much as 5-10 mg of levothyroxine as a single dose have few or no symptoms of thyrotoxicosis. We report an adolescent girl who attempted suicide by ingesting levothyroxine. She responded well to β-adrenergic blockade.

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Huseyin Anil Korkmaz, Ceyhun Dizdarer, Filiz Hazan, Utku Karaarslan. Attempted suicide with levothyroxine in an adolescent girl. Journal of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism : JPEM. 2013;26(1-2):129-31