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The Perfect Storm: A Case of Ischemic Stroke in the Setting of Thyroid Storm

Mortality in thyroid storm, without appropriate treatment, can rise as high as 100%. Thyroid storm coexisting with ischemic stroke is a rare presentation that further increases the risk of mortality. Early recognition and appropriate management are critical to the prevention of mortality and morbidi...

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Autores principales: Snyder, Samantha, Joseph, Maria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7274259/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32523847
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7992
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description Mortality in thyroid storm, without appropriate treatment, can rise as high as 100%. Thyroid storm coexisting with ischemic stroke is a rare presentation that further increases the risk of mortality. Early recognition and appropriate management are critical to the prevention of mortality and morbidity. Here, we review the case of a 63-year-old male presenting with new neurological deficits who was found to have thyroid storm; appropriate management of the co-existing conditions are also reviewed.
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spelling pubmed-72742592020-06-09 The Perfect Storm: A Case of Ischemic Stroke in the Setting of Thyroid Storm Snyder, Samantha Joseph, Maria Cureus Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism Mortality in thyroid storm, without appropriate treatment, can rise as high as 100%. Thyroid storm coexisting with ischemic stroke is a rare presentation that further increases the risk of mortality. Early recognition and appropriate management are critical to the prevention of mortality and morbidity. Here, we review the case of a 63-year-old male presenting with new neurological deficits who was found to have thyroid storm; appropriate management of the co-existing conditions are also reviewed. Cureus 2020-05-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7274259/ /pubmed/32523847 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7992 Text en Copyright © 2020, Snyder 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.
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title_sort perfect storm: a case of ischemic stroke in the setting of thyroid storm
topic Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7274259/
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