Table 2.

Literature review ^{11 16–27}

Sl no.	Authors	Age	Sex	Aetiology	Treatment	Time to recovery of blood counts
1	Garcia et al 16	54	F	Graves’ disease	RAI	3 months
2	Jha et al 17	62	F	Unknown	Unknown	10 days
3	Imai et al 18	33	F	Graves’ disease	PTU	1 month
4	Loh and Tan19	48	M	Graves’ disease	RAI	Unknown
5	Chen et al 20	36	F	Unknown	Unknown	4 days
6	Hegazi et al 21	43	F	Graves’ disease	Unknown	Unknown
7	Akoum et al 22	65	F	Toxic multinodular goitre	Carbimazole	2 months
8	Lima et al 11	71 35 39 18	M F M F	Graves’ disease Graves’ disease Graves’ disease Graves’ disease	RAI Methimazole Methimazole Methimazole	1 month 6 months 3 months >1 year
9	Kebapcilar et al 23	53	F	Graves’ disease	PTU
10	Shaw and Mehta24	46	M	Graves’ disease	Carbimazole	Few weeks
11	Soeki et al 25	49	M	Graves’ disease	Methimazole	3 months
12	Burns and Burns8			Graves’ disease
13	Ladwig et al 26	25	F	Graves’ disease	PTU	Lost to follow-up
14	Talansky et al 27	48	F	Graves’ disease	RAI	10 months

RAI, radioiodine ablation; PTU, propylthiouracil.