Legions of Presentations of Myxedema Coma: A Case Series from a Tertiary Hospital in India

Myxedema coma is associated with decreased mental status and hyponatremia among patients with diagnosed or undiagnosed hypothyroidism. The diagnosis is challenging in the absence of universally accepted diagnostic criteria, but should be considered as a differential even in cases with competing esta...

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Autores principales: Roy, Nirmalya, Majumder, Anirban, Sanyal, Debmalya, Chaudhuri, Soumyabrata Roy, Sarkar, Suman, Pathak, Ankan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Journal of the ASEAN Federation of Endocrine Societies 2020
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Case Series
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7784239/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33442196
http://dx.doi.org/10.15605/jafes.035.02.12
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author Roy, Nirmalya
Majumder, Anirban
Sanyal, Debmalya
Chaudhuri, Soumyabrata Roy
Sarkar, Suman
Pathak, Ankan
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description Myxedema coma is associated with decreased mental status and hyponatremia among patients with diagnosed or undiagnosed hypothyroidism. The diagnosis is challenging in the absence of universally accepted diagnostic criteria, but should be considered as a differential even in cases with competing established diagnoses. All patients should receive intensive care level treatment. Even with optimal treatment, mortality is very high.
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spelling pubmed-77842392021-01-12 Legions of Presentations of Myxedema Coma: A Case Series from a Tertiary Hospital in India Roy, Nirmalya Majumder, Anirban Sanyal, Debmalya Chaudhuri, Soumyabrata Roy Sarkar, Suman Pathak, Ankan J ASEAN Fed Endocr Soc Case Series Myxedema coma is associated with decreased mental status and hyponatremia among patients with diagnosed or undiagnosed hypothyroidism. The diagnosis is challenging in the absence of universally accepted diagnostic criteria, but should be considered as a differential even in cases with competing established diagnoses. All patients should receive intensive care level treatment. Even with optimal treatment, mortality is very high. Journal of the ASEAN Federation of Endocrine Societies 2020-11-29 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7784239/ /pubmed/33442196 http://dx.doi.org/10.15605/jafes.035.02.12 Text en © 2020 Journal of the ASEAN Federation of Endocrine Societies https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
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Roy, Nirmalya
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Sarkar, Suman
Pathak, Ankan
Legions of Presentations of Myxedema Coma: A Case Series from a Tertiary Hospital in India
title Legions of Presentations of Myxedema Coma: A Case Series from a Tertiary Hospital in India
title_full Legions of Presentations of Myxedema Coma: A Case Series from a Tertiary Hospital in India
title_fullStr Legions of Presentations of Myxedema Coma: A Case Series from a Tertiary Hospital in India
title_full_unstemmed Legions of Presentations of Myxedema Coma: A Case Series from a Tertiary Hospital in India
title_short Legions of Presentations of Myxedema Coma: A Case Series from a Tertiary Hospital in India
title_sort legions of presentations of myxedema coma: a case series from a tertiary hospital in india
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7784239/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33442196
http://dx.doi.org/10.15605/jafes.035.02.12
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