Thyroid storm due to inappropriate administration of a compounded thyroid hormone preparation successfully treated with plasmapheresis

Thyroid

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1283-1286

  Jha, Sujeet ^a   Waghdhare, Swati ^a   Reddi, Rajashekar ^a   Bhattacharya, Priyanka ^b  

^a Max Healthcare   (India)

^b Max Neeman International   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBIMAZOLE; LIOTHYRONINE; LUGOL; PROPRANOLOL; STEROID; THYROID EXTRACT; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ABNORMAL LABORATORY RESULT; ADULT; AGITATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; BURCH AND WARTOFSKY SCORING SYSTEM; CASE REPORT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DELIRIUM; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EUTHYROIDISM; FEMALE; FEVER; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; HEADACHE; HEART RATE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICATION ERROR; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MENTAL HEALTH; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLASMAPHERESIS; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESSNESS; SCORING SYSTEM; SEIZURE; TACHYCARDIA; THYROID CRISIS; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; VISUAL DISORDER; VOMITING;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMAPHERESIS; THYROID CRISIS; THYROID HORMONES; TISSUE EXTRACTS;

EID: 84870840050     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: 15579077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2011.0353     Document Type: Article

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