TOPIC: Critical Care TYPE: Fellow Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Myxedema coma is severe hypothyroidism with associated hypothermia, altered mental status and multi-organ dysfunction. Mortality over 60% cases usually occur after a precipitating incident in patients untreated hypothyroidism. CASE PRESENTATION: The patient 78 year old male history of congestive heart failure, diabetes, CKD, bronchiec...

s^Pt?ms be regarded as psychogenic in origin. 1 he term myxoedema is applied to a severe degree of hypothyroidism which can be !a?nosed at sight by the experienced clinical observer. Because this is widely recognized there is a tendency for the diagnosis of hypothyroidism to be overlooked in Patients who show neither the characteristic symptoms nor the classical signs of Myxoedema. Yet the trea...

Introduction: Thyroid dysfunctions are highly prevalent diseases. Despite of its high prevalence the presentation is unusual nowadays because of oral hormone therapy widely used in insufficiency of the gland however hyperfunction states are common also. About 12% of the US population will develop some alteration of thryroid function in their lifetime. Among these diseases we highlight the prese...

In 1811, Courtois noted a violet vapor arising from burning seaweed ash and Gay-Lussac subsequently identified the vapor as iodine, a new element. The Swiss physician Coindet, in 1813, hypothesized the traditional treatment of goiter with seaweed was effective because of its iodine content and successfully treated goitrous patients with iodine. Two decades later, the French chemist Boussingault...

Hypothyroidism is a medical condition commonly encountered in a variety of clinical settings. The clinical presentations of thyroid hormone deficiency are diverse, complicated, and often overlooked. Hypothyroidism is a potential etiology for multiple somatic complaints and a variety of psychological disturbances. The physical complaints are primarily related to metabolic slowing secondary to la...

6. Discuss the use of laboratory tests to assess thyroid function in a pregnant GD patient. utoimmune diseases of the thyroid gland are the most common autoimmune diseases in humans, and encompass a wide spectrum of clinical presentations, ranging from Graves’ disease (GD), Graves’ ophthalmopathy (GO), Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, and idiopathic myxedema.1 GD is characterized by the production of a...