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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 کاملRadioiodine 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...
متن کاملSymptomatic hypercalcaemia in thyrotoxicosis.
In three patients with thyrotoxicosis and with symptomatic hypercalcaemia antithyroid therapy restored the plasma calcium concentration to normal, though initially in one case intravenous and oral neutral phosphate solution were required to curtail intractable vomiting.Nine cases have been recorded in which the plasma calcium concentration returned to normal after antithyroid treatment was star...
متن کاملHeart size in thyrotoxicosis.
Sunmary (1) Enlargement of the heart was found in 35% of a group of older patients with thyrotoxicosis who had no evidence of associated heart disease. Atrial fibrillation was present in 48% of patients with cardiac enlargement and in 10% with a normal sized heart. Both complications were more common when there was associated heart disease. (2) In patients with an enlarged heart but no associat...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2230-8210
DOI: 10.4103/2230-8210.77578