The unusual clinical manifestation of thyroid storm

Thyroid Storm: An Unusual Presentation

A 32-year old female patient was hospitalized in a referral hospital with fever, diarrhea, seizures and altered sensorium. On physical examination, patient was febrile with tachycardia. Suspecting the diagnosis of thyroid storm clinically, the patient was started on aggressive antithyroid treatment after which she showed marked clinical improvement.

A case of T4 toxicosis complicated by thyroid storm with an unusual precipitant

[Cutaneous leishmaniosis: unusual clinical manifestation].

Clinical manifestations of leishmaniasis are diverse and related to the infecting species, its relationship with the environment and the host immune response. A case of late Andean cutaneous leishmaniasis with extensive manifestation is presented. The case was confirmed through microbiological and immunological studies; identification was performed by cytochrome b gene sequencing and the specie...

Unusual Manifestations of Feline Hyperthyroidism and Feline Thyroid Storm

Thyrotoxicosis is a term used to describe any condition in which there is an excessive amount of circulating thyroid hormone whether from excess production and secretion from an overactive thyroid gland, leakage from a damaged thyroid gland, or from an exogenous source. In most veterinary patients, thyrotoxicosis occurs from thyroid gland hyperfunction. Feline hyperthyroidism is a common endocr...

Clinical Experience : GRAVES ’ DISEASE AND THYROID STORM

Thyroid Storm (TS) or Thyroid Crisis (TC) usually develops after some specific precipitating event such as infection, sepsis, trauma, cerebrovascular accident, or radioactive iodine therapy, etc. Thyroid Crisis may present as the so called masked or apapthic thyrotoxicosis (Ghobrial et al 2002), in which case signs and symptoms of the patient may be subtle, or not previously diagnosed with thyr...