Thyroid Storm in an Adolescent Girl Precipitated by Empyema Thoracis

Thyroid storm is a rare, life-threatening condition in children. We report the case of a 16-year-old girl who presented with fever, cough, chest pain, and breathing difficulty. On the initial evaluation, a working diagnosis of left-sided pneumonia with empyema was made. She also had persistent tachy...

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Autores principales: Thakur, Chirag, Kumar, Prawin, Goyal, Jagdish Prasad, Vyas, Varuna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: OMJ 2022
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9188734/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35712374
http://dx.doi.org/10.5001/omj.2022.15
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author Thakur, Chirag
Kumar, Prawin
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description Thyroid storm is a rare, life-threatening condition in children. We report the case of a 16-year-old girl who presented with fever, cough, chest pain, and breathing difficulty. On the initial evaluation, a working diagnosis of left-sided pneumonia with empyema was made. She also had persistent tachycardia which was out of proportion to fever, and a staring look. She was found to have a thyroid storm. Timely diagnosis and appropriate management of thyroid storm proved to be lifesaving.
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spelling pubmed-91887342022-06-15 Thyroid Storm in an Adolescent Girl Precipitated by Empyema Thoracis Thakur, Chirag Kumar, Prawin Goyal, Jagdish Prasad Vyas, Varuna Oman Med J Case Reports Thyroid storm is a rare, life-threatening condition in children. We report the case of a 16-year-old girl who presented with fever, cough, chest pain, and breathing difficulty. On the initial evaluation, a working diagnosis of left-sided pneumonia with empyema was made. She also had persistent tachycardia which was out of proportion to fever, and a staring look. She was found to have a thyroid storm. Timely diagnosis and appropriate management of thyroid storm proved to be lifesaving. OMJ 2022-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9188734/ /pubmed/35712374 http://dx.doi.org/10.5001/omj.2022.15 Text en The OMJ is Published Bimonthly and Copyrighted 2022 by the OMSB. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
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Thyroid Storm in an Adolescent Girl Precipitated by Empyema Thoracis
title Thyroid Storm in an Adolescent Girl Precipitated by Empyema Thoracis
title_full Thyroid Storm in an Adolescent Girl Precipitated by Empyema Thoracis
title_fullStr Thyroid Storm in an Adolescent Girl Precipitated by Empyema Thoracis
title_full_unstemmed Thyroid Storm in an Adolescent Girl Precipitated by Empyema Thoracis
title_short Thyroid Storm in an Adolescent Girl Precipitated by Empyema Thoracis
title_sort thyroid storm in an adolescent girl precipitated by empyema thoracis
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9188734/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35712374
http://dx.doi.org/10.5001/omj.2022.15
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