Severe starvation hypoglycemia and congestive heart failure induced by thyroid crisis, with accidentally induced severe liver dysfunction and disseminated intravascular coagulation

Internal Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 234-239

  Kobayashi, Chiaki ^b   Sasaki, Hideo ^a   Kosuge, Keiichiro ^b   Miyakita, Yasushi ^a   Hayakawa, Masahumi ^a   Suzuki, Akiko ^b   Abe, Eri ^b   Suzuki, Katsunori ^b   Aizawa, Yoshifusa ^b  

^a Niigata Kobari Hospital   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Congestive heart failure; Disseminated intravascular coagulation; Hypoglycemia; Shock; Shock liver; Thyroid crisis

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMLODIPINE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CHOLINESTERASE; CREATINE KINASE; D DIMER; DIGITALIS; DIGOXIN; DOBUTAMINE; ENALAPRIL; FIBRIN DEGRADATION PRODUCT; FIBRINOGEN; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; FUROSEMIDE; GABEXATE MESILATE; GLUCOSE; HYDROCORTISONE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LIOTHYRONINE; METOPROLOL; POTASSIUM IODIDE; PROTHROMBIN; THIAMAZOLE; THROMBOPLASTIN; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; ULINASTATIN;

AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CACHEXIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMMON COLD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DELIRIUM; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG EFFICACY; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDEMA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHERMIA; JAUNDICE; LEG EDEMA; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MALNUTRITION; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; SHOCK; STARVATION; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYROID CRISIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; DIURETICS; FEMALE; FUROSEMIDE; GLUCOSE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LIVER DISEASES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STARVATION; THYROID CRISIS; THYROID HORMONES; TRANSAMINASES;

EID: 17744387940     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.44.234     Document Type: Article

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