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onset in a patient with biochemical evidence of elevated thyroid hormones.  Characteristic symptoms and signs are fever, marked tachycardia, heart failure, tremor, nausea and vomiting, diarrhoea, dehydration, restlessness, extreme agitation, delirium and coma.
Note 1: Thyrotoxic crisis is also known as thyroid storm.
         Note 2: Thyrotoxic crisis may be the first presentation of undiagnosed Graves disease or may complicate existing Graves disease.
                                     VEA means the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.