Myxoedema madness

Myxoedema ascites.

A case of myxoedema ascites complicating ischaemic heart disease is reported. Partial thyroid hormone replacement therapy, given slowly, eventually produced a diuresis and complete resolution of the ascites after a delay of 4 weeks.

Iatrogenic myxoedema madness following radioactive iodine ablation for Graves' disease, with a concurrent diagnosis of primary hyperaldosteronism

UNLABELLED Myxoedema madness was first described as a consequence of severe hypothyroidism in 1949. Most cases were secondary to long-standing untreated primary hypothyroidism. We present the first reported case of iatrogenic myxoedema madness following radioactive iodine ablation for Graves' disease, with a second concurrent diagnosis of primary hyperaldosteronism. A 29-year-old woman presente...

Hypothermic Myxoedema

The photomotogram (P.M.G.) of the Achilles tendon reflex was studied in 26 patients with hypothermia (rectal temperature 333°C or less), 10 of whom also had myxoedema (serum protein bound iodine 2-8 Fg/100 ml or less). No reflex could be elicited in eight (31%) ofthese patients, including three ofthose with myxoedema. Hypothermia increases both the contraction and the relaxation times of the re...

Madness

here are clouds in the painting, of course. Almost any one of us would have included those clouds, thick with electricity and rainwater. And there is the wheat field, smudged out like an empty palm, orange beneath the storm-stricken sun. Surely, many of us would have insisted on the wheat as well. Through the middle of the wheat, a rutted road slices to the horizon and disappears beneath the cl...

Anginal Pain in Myxoedema.