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There are no reports of secondary anemia resulting from thyrotoxicosis due to painless thyroiditis (silent thyroiditis). We report the case of a patient with pancreatic diabetes who developed anemia caused by thyrotoxicosis due to painless thyroiditis.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Case presentation<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The patient was a 37-year-old man who visited the hospital complaining of fatigue, palpitations, and dyspnea. His hemoglobin was 110\u2009g\/l (reference range, 135\u2013176), and mean corpuscular volume was 81.5\u2009fl (81.7\u2013101.6). His free thyroxine (FT4) was high, at 100.4\u2009pmol\/l (11.6\u201321.9); the free triiodothyronine (FT3) was high, at 27.49\u2009pmol\/l (3.53\u20136.14); TSH was low, at &lt;\u20090.01 mIU\/l (0.50\u20135.00); and TSH receptor antibody was negative. Soluble IL-2 receptor (sIL-2R) was high, at 1340\u2009U\/ml (122\u2013496); C-reactive protein (CRP) was high, at 6900\u2009\u03bcg\/l (&lt;\u20093000); and reticulocytes was high, at 108 10\n                      <jats:sup>9<\/jats:sup>\n                      \/l (30\u2013100). Serum iron (Fe) was 9.5 (9.1\u201335.5), ferritin was 389\u2009\u03bcg\/l (13\u2013401), haptoglobin was 0.66\u2009g\/l (0.19\u20131.70. Propranolol was prescribed and followed up. Anemia completely disappeared by 12\u2009weeks after disease onset. Thyroid hormones and sIL-2R had normalized by 16\u2009weeks after onset. He developed mild hypothyroidism and was treated with L-thyroxine at 24\u2009weeks.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This is the first case report of transient secondary anemia associated with thyrotoxicosis due to painless thyroiditis. The change in sIL-2R was also observed during the clinical course of thyrotoxicosis and anemia, suggesting the immune processes in thyroid gland and bone marrow.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s13044-021-00100-6","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,4,23]],"date-time":"2021-04-23T02:02:32Z","timestamp":1619143352000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["A case of thyrotoxicosis-induced anemia in a patient with painless thyroiditis"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4965-4561","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ichiro","family":"Komiya","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Takeaki","family":"Tomoyose","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Noriharu","family":"Yagi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Gen","family":"Ouchi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tamio","family":"Wakugami","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,4,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"100_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"735","DOI":"10.1136\/pgmj.64.756.735","volume":"64","author":"HC Ford","year":"1998","unstructured":"Ford HC, Carter JM. 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