Perioperative management of a patient with myxedema coma and septicemic shock

Myxedema coma is a life-threatening but uncommon complication of long-standing, neglected hypothyroidism. It was first reported by Ord in 1879. Till date only around 200 cases have been reported in literature. The incidence in European countries is 0.22 per million per year. No epidemiological data...

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Autores principales: Baduni, Neha, Sinha, Sunil Kumar, Sanwal, Manoj K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3610460/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23559735
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.106510
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description Myxedema coma is a life-threatening but uncommon complication of long-standing, neglected hypothyroidism. It was first reported by Ord in 1879. Till date only around 200 cases have been reported in literature. The incidence in European countries is 0.22 per million per year. No epidemiological data is available from the Indian subcontinent. We are reporting the case of an elderly lady who went into life-threatening myxedema coma along with septicemic shock, and was successfully treated with oral thyroxine.
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spelling pubmed-36104602013-04-04 Perioperative management of a patient with myxedema coma and septicemic shock Baduni, Neha Sinha, Sunil Kumar Sanwal, Manoj K. Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report Myxedema coma is a life-threatening but uncommon complication of long-standing, neglected hypothyroidism. It was first reported by Ord in 1879. Till date only around 200 cases have been reported in literature. The incidence in European countries is 0.22 per million per year. No epidemiological data is available from the Indian subcontinent. We are reporting the case of an elderly lady who went into life-threatening myxedema coma along with septicemic shock, and was successfully treated with oral thyroxine. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3610460/ /pubmed/23559735 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.106510 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Perioperative management of a patient with myxedema coma and septicemic shock
title_sort perioperative management of a patient with myxedema coma and septicemic shock
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3610460/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23559735
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.106510
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