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Myxedema Ascites: A Rare Presentation of Uncontrolled Hypothyroidism

Less than four percent of patients with hypothyroidism develop ascites. Ascites as the presenting feature of hypothyroidism is uncommon, hence diagnosis is often delayed. Once it is diagnosed, treatment of hypothyroidism leads to quick clinical improvement in ascites. We report a case of a female pa...

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Autores principales: Khalid, Sameen, Asad-Ur-Rahman, FNU, Abbass, Aamer, Gordon, Dwayne, Abusaada, Khalid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5215814/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28083456
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.912
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author Khalid, Sameen
Asad-Ur-Rahman, FNU
Abbass, Aamer
Gordon, Dwayne
Abusaada, Khalid
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Asad-Ur-Rahman, FNU
Abbass, Aamer
Gordon, Dwayne
Abusaada, Khalid
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description Less than four percent of patients with hypothyroidism develop ascites. Ascites as the presenting feature of hypothyroidism is uncommon, hence diagnosis is often delayed. Once it is diagnosed, treatment of hypothyroidism leads to quick clinical improvement in ascites. We report a case of a female patient who presented with ascites secondary to severe hypothyroidism and discuss the diagnostic characteristics of the ascitic fluid in myxedema ascites on the basis of literature review.
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spelling pubmed-52158142017-01-12 Myxedema Ascites: A Rare Presentation of Uncontrolled Hypothyroidism Khalid, Sameen Asad-Ur-Rahman, FNU Abbass, Aamer Gordon, Dwayne Abusaada, Khalid Cureus Gastroenterology Less than four percent of patients with hypothyroidism develop ascites. Ascites as the presenting feature of hypothyroidism is uncommon, hence diagnosis is often delayed. Once it is diagnosed, treatment of hypothyroidism leads to quick clinical improvement in ascites. We report a case of a female patient who presented with ascites secondary to severe hypothyroidism and discuss the diagnostic characteristics of the ascitic fluid in myxedema ascites on the basis of literature review. Cureus 2016-12-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5215814/ /pubmed/28083456 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.912 Text en Copyright © 2016, Khalid et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Gastroenterology
Khalid, Sameen
Asad-Ur-Rahman, FNU
Abbass, Aamer
Gordon, Dwayne
Abusaada, Khalid
Myxedema Ascites: A Rare Presentation of Uncontrolled Hypothyroidism
title Myxedema Ascites: A Rare Presentation of Uncontrolled Hypothyroidism
title_full Myxedema Ascites: A Rare Presentation of Uncontrolled Hypothyroidism
title_fullStr Myxedema Ascites: A Rare Presentation of Uncontrolled Hypothyroidism
title_full_unstemmed Myxedema Ascites: A Rare Presentation of Uncontrolled Hypothyroidism
title_short Myxedema Ascites: A Rare Presentation of Uncontrolled Hypothyroidism
title_sort myxedema ascites: a rare presentation of uncontrolled hypothyroidism
topic Gastroenterology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5215814/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28083456
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.912
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