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Bronchial asthma induced by an antithyroid drug
R D Grembiale1, S Naty, C Iorio
1Respiratory Pathophysiology, University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy. rdgrembiale@unicz.it
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|May 12, 2001
Abstract:
We report the case of a 67-year-old woman who suffered from a severe asthma exacerbation as a consequence of an antithyroid drug treatment prescribed for her multinodular, hyperfunctioning goiter. Asthma symptoms were associated with a very significant increase in the number of eosinophils, detected in both blood and induced sputum.