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Thyrotoxicosis is a treatable condition that happens when you have too much thyroid hormone in your body. Common symptoms include unexplained weight loss, a rapid heart rate and shakiness. The treatment for thyrotoxicosis depends on what’s causing it.
Thyrotoxicosis is when you have way too much of those hormones in your blood. This happens most often because your thyroid gland makes too much. That’s a condition called hyperthyroidism....
Thyrotoxicosis is the clinical state associated with excess thyroid hormone activity, usually due to inappropriately high-circulating thyroid hormones. The clinical presentation varies, ranging from asymptomatic to life-threatening thyroid storm.
Thyrotoxicosis is the clinical manifestation of excess thyroid hormone action at the tissue level due to inappropriately high circulating thyroid hormone concentrations. Hyperthyroidism, a subset of thyrotoxicosis, refers specifically to excess thyroid hormone synthesis and secretion by the thyroid gland.
Thyrotoxicosis refers to actual physical and laboratory findings showing excess circulating thyroid hormones, regardless of the source. Here is what you need to know about thyrotoxicosis, including types, symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and treatment. Verywell / Laura Porter.
Thyroid storm is a rare, life-threatening condition characterized by severe clinical manifestations of thyrotoxicosis [1]. In national surveys from the United States and Japan, the incidence of thyroid storm was 0.57 to 0.76 and 0.20 per 100,000 persons per year, respectively, and 4.8 to 5.6 per 100,000 hospitalized patients per year [2-4].
Thyroid storm, also known as thyrotoxic crisis, is an acute, life-threatening complication of hyperthyroidism. It is an exaggerated presentation of thyrotoxicosis, and it comes with sudden multisystem involvement.
This document describes evidence-based clinical guidelines for the management of thyrotoxicosis that would be useful to generalist and subspecialty physicians and others providing care for patients with this condition.
Thyrotoxicosis is a common condition associated with excess circulating thyroid hormones that may present in myriad ways and thus will be encountered by practitioners in all medical disciplines.
Thyroid storm (also called thyroid crisis and thyrotoxic crisis) happens when your thyroid gland releases a large amount of thyroid hormone in a short amount of time. It’s a rare complication of hyperthyroidism. Thyroid storm is a medical emergency and is life-threatening.