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Thyrotoxicosis
" Scire est nescire, nisi id me Scire alius sciret SPRING, 194:1. It would not be possible to deal at all fully with the scientific aspects of this subject in an article of reasonable length, and still less would it be possible to give a resume of the enormous literature that has grown up concerning it. My purpose is much simpler ; it is to present a record of personal experience and to offer s...
متن کاملThyrotoxicosis.
Thyrotoxicosis is a common disorder, especially in women. The most frequent cause is Graves' disease (autoimmune hyperthyroidism). Other important causes include toxic nodular hyperthyroidism, due to the presence of one or more autonomously functioning thyroid nodules, and thyroiditis caused by inflammation, which results in release of stored hormones. Antithyroid drugs are the usual initial tr...
متن کاملThyrotoxicosis and pregnancy
Thyrotoxicosis affects 1-3.5% of all pregnancies and its major cause is gestational hyperthyroidism and Graves’ disease, less common – multinodular toxic goiter and toxic adenoma, and rare – subacute or silent thyroiditis and struma ovarii. Gestational hyperthyroidism is a transient form of thyrotoxicosis caused by excessive stimulation of thyroid gland by hCG and usually limited to the first 1...
متن کاملThyrotoxicosis and the Heart
Virtually all hormones secreted by major endocrine glands have a direct or indirect effect on the cardiovascular system; and although the precise relationship between excess thyroxin and heart disease has not been defined, thyrotoxic heart disease has been well recognized for over a century. Parry, in 1825, first described cardiac involvement in thyrotoxicosis, consisting of palpitations, irreg...
متن کاملAngina pectoris and thyrotoxicosis.
The effects of thyrotoxicosis on the cardiovascular system are well recognized and some are very prominent. Symptoms ascribable to the overaction of the heart such as dyspncea, palpitation, tachycardia, irregularity of the heart, dizziness, and prxcordial pain have been encountered in as many as 80 per cent of a series of 148 cases of thyrotoxicosis (Burnett and Durbin, 1932). The pathological ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1964
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.5425.1630