Respiratory failure associated with hypoventilation in a patient with severe hypothyroidism

A 70-year-old Japanese man was admitted to hospital because of decreased consciousness due to type II respiratory failure. Severe hypothyroidism was diagnosed and considered to be associated with hypoventilation due to respiratory muscle dysfunction and sleep apnea syndrome. His status was improved...

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Autores principales: Fukusumi, Munehisa, Iidaka, Toshiko, Mouri, Atsuto, Hamamoto, Yoichiro, Kamimura, Mitsuhiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2014
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4184513/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25473574
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.55
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author Fukusumi, Munehisa
Iidaka, Toshiko
Mouri, Atsuto
Hamamoto, Yoichiro
Kamimura, Mitsuhiro
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description A 70-year-old Japanese man was admitted to hospital because of decreased consciousness due to type II respiratory failure. Severe hypothyroidism was diagnosed and considered to be associated with hypoventilation due to respiratory muscle dysfunction and sleep apnea syndrome. His status was improved partially by replacement of thyroid hormone. Despite maintaining a euthyroid state, improvement of respiratory muscle dysfunction was incomplete.
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spelling pubmed-41845132014-12-03 Respiratory failure associated with hypoventilation in a patient with severe hypothyroidism Fukusumi, Munehisa Iidaka, Toshiko Mouri, Atsuto Hamamoto, Yoichiro Kamimura, Mitsuhiro Respirol Case Rep Case Reports A 70-year-old Japanese man was admitted to hospital because of decreased consciousness due to type II respiratory failure. Severe hypothyroidism was diagnosed and considered to be associated with hypoventilation due to respiratory muscle dysfunction and sleep apnea syndrome. His status was improved partially by replacement of thyroid hormone. Despite maintaining a euthyroid state, improvement of respiratory muscle dysfunction was incomplete. BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2014-06 2014-03-13 /pmc/articles/PMC4184513/ /pubmed/25473574 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.55 Text en © 2014 The Authors. Respirology Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The Asian Pacific Society of Respirology. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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Mouri, Atsuto
Hamamoto, Yoichiro
Kamimura, Mitsuhiro
Respiratory failure associated with hypoventilation in a patient with severe hypothyroidism
title Respiratory failure associated with hypoventilation in a patient with severe hypothyroidism
title_full Respiratory failure associated with hypoventilation in a patient with severe hypothyroidism
title_fullStr Respiratory failure associated with hypoventilation in a patient with severe hypothyroidism
title_full_unstemmed Respiratory failure associated with hypoventilation in a patient with severe hypothyroidism
title_short Respiratory failure associated with hypoventilation in a patient with severe hypothyroidism
title_sort respiratory failure associated with hypoventilation in a patient with severe hypothyroidism
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4184513/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25473574
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.55
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