Diagnosis of myxedema coma complicated by renal failure: a case report

Myxedema coma, caused by severe lack of thyroid hormone, is characterized by deterioration of mental status, hypothermia, hypotension, hyponatremia, and hypoventilation. We describe an 84‐year‐old woman who presented with renal failure and new onset severe hypothyroidism leading to challenges in the...

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Autores principales: Takamura, Akiteru, Sangen, Ryusho, Furumura, Yoshiki, Usuda, Daisuke, Kasamaki, Yuji, Kanda, Tsugiyasu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5378864/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28396755
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.850
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author Takamura, Akiteru
Sangen, Ryusho
Furumura, Yoshiki
Usuda, Daisuke
Kasamaki, Yuji
Kanda, Tsugiyasu
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description Myxedema coma, caused by severe lack of thyroid hormone, is characterized by deterioration of mental status, hypothermia, hypotension, hyponatremia, and hypoventilation. We describe an 84‐year‐old woman who presented with renal failure and new onset severe hypothyroidism leading to challenges in the recognition of myxedema coma.
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spelling pubmed-53788642017-04-10 Diagnosis of myxedema coma complicated by renal failure: a case report Takamura, Akiteru Sangen, Ryusho Furumura, Yoshiki Usuda, Daisuke Kasamaki, Yuji Kanda, Tsugiyasu Clin Case Rep Case Reports Myxedema coma, caused by severe lack of thyroid hormone, is characterized by deterioration of mental status, hypothermia, hypotension, hyponatremia, and hypoventilation. We describe an 84‐year‐old woman who presented with renal failure and new onset severe hypothyroidism leading to challenges in the recognition of myxedema coma. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-02-21 /pmc/articles/PMC5378864/ /pubmed/28396755 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.850 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Takamura, Akiteru
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Diagnosis of myxedema coma complicated by renal failure: a case report
title Diagnosis of myxedema coma complicated by renal failure: a case report
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title_fullStr Diagnosis of myxedema coma complicated by renal failure: a case report
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title_short Diagnosis of myxedema coma complicated by renal failure: a case report
title_sort diagnosis of myxedema coma complicated by renal failure: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5378864/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.850
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