Neonatal Thyrotoxicosis

Neonatal thyrotoxicosis and persistent pulmonary hypertension necessitating extracorporeal life support.

We report a case of neonatal Graves' disease involving an infant with severe persistent pulmonary hypertension (PPHN) associated with neonatal thyrotoxicosis that necessitated extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Hyperthyroidism, although uncommon in the newborn period, has been associated with pulmonary hypertension among adults. The exact mechanisms responsible for this effect on pulmonary va...

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...

Thyrotoxicosis.

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...

Thyrotoxicosis; the present position.

Radioiodine therapy in thyrotoxicosis.

One hundred and two patients (81 females, 21 males) suffering from thyrotoxicosis as diagnosed clinically and confirmed by laboratory investigations including the estimation of thyroid hormones in blood were treated with radioiodine (I-131) at the University of Minnesota Hospital between 1976 and 1986. Nine (9%) patients needed two and 3 (3%) patients needed three therapeutic doses of I-131. Th...