A thyrotoxicosis outbreak due to dietary pills in Paris

Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1375-1379

  Ioos, Vincent ^a   Das, Vincent ^a   Maury, Eric ^a,b,d   Baudel, Jean Luc ^a   Guéchot, Jérôme ^c   Guidet, Bertrand ^a,b   Offenstadt, Georges ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

^d ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Dietary pills; Thyrotoxicosis; Thyroxin

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMOXICILLIN; ANOREXIGENIC AGENT; ANTIOBESITY AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CLORAZEPATE; COLESTYRAMINE; DIETARY PILL; GENTAMICIN; HEPARIN; HYDROCORTISONE; PARACETAMOL; PROPRANOLOL; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE; TIAPRIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGITATION; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFUSION; DEPRESSION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISORIENTATION; DRUG SAFETY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; FRANCE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPERTHYROIDISM; INTENSIVE CARE; MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA; OBESITY; PLASMAPHERESIS; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; TACHYCARDIA; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROTOXICOSIS;

EID: 61549120486     PISSN: 11766336     EISSN: 1178203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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