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The diagnosis of thyrotoxicosis WILLIAM
Thyrotoxicosis is a clinical syndrome due to excessive amounts of thyroid hormone in the circulation and tissues. Graves' disease, goitre and exophthalmos, is the commonest variety, but in some parts of the world thyrotoxicosis supervenes on the background of a long standing nodular goitre. Other varieties such as ectopic TSH syndromes are very rare. The diagnostic sequence in practice starts w...
متن کاملDiagnosis and management of thyrotoxicosis.
What is the underlying pathophysiology of thyrotoxicosis? Graves’ disease is an autoimmune disease mediated by antibodies that stimulate the thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) receptor, leading to excess secretion of thyroid hor mones and hyperplasia of thyroid follicular cells, resulting in hyperthyroidism and diffuse goitre (table 1). Both genetic and environmental factors (for example, smoki...
متن کاملSome aspects of the diagnosis of thyrotoxicosis.
THE majority of patients suffermg from thyrotoxicosis can be reliably diagnosed from the history and physical exammation together with laboratory techniques, particularly the measurement of basal metabohc rate, radio-iodme uptake and protem-bound iodine. There are a number of patients, however, who present difficult diagnostic problems either because of previous treatment for thyrotoxicosis, me...
متن کاملUtility of plasma fibrinogen in the differential diagnosis of thyrotoxicosis.
BACKGROUND A study had reported that a low TSH level is associated with elevated plasma fibrinogen (FIB) levels. Our purpose was to investigate the role of FIB in the differential diagnosis of thyrotoxicosis. METHODS The data of 104 patients with primary thyrotoxicosis at the First Hospital of China Medical University from July 2010 to March 2011 were analyzed and divided into three groups: 4...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1954
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.4859.411