TABLE 3.

EVENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE ONSET OF THYROTOXIC STORM

Infection

Other acute medical illness

Acute emotional stress

Acute psychosis

Non-thyroid surgery

Parturition

Trauma

Metastatic differentiated thyroid cancer

Discontinuation of antithyroid drug therapy

After radioiodine therapy

Post-thyroidectomy

After high-dose iodine administration

Iodinated radiographic contrast agents

RARE ASSOCIATIONS:

Vigorous palpation of thyroid gland

Subacute thyroiditis

Thyroxine overdosage (thyrotoxicosis factitia)

Aspirin intoxication

Subacute thyroiditis

Thyroxine overdosage (thyrotoxicosis factitia)

Aspirin intoxication

Hydatidiform mole

Organophosphate intoxication

Neurotoxins

Cytotoxic chemotherapy