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  2. Thyroid storm - Wikipedia

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    The main strategies for the management of thyroid storm are reducing production and release of thyroid hormone, reducing the effects of thyroid hormone on tissues, replacing fluid losses, and controlling temperature. [5] Thyroid storm requires prompt treatment and hospitalization. Often, admission to the intensive care unit is needed. [21]

  3. Management of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

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    Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder management options are evidence-based practices with established treatment efficacy for ADHD.Approaches that have been evaluated in the management of ADHD symptoms include FDA-approved pharmacologic treatment and other pharmaceutical agents, psychological or behavioral approaches, combined pharmacological and behavioral approaches, cognitive training ...

  4. Hoffmann syndrome - Wikipedia

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    [14] [15] It is also a comorbidity of late-onset Pompe disease (Glycogen storage disease type II). [ 16 ] [ 17 ] As both hyper- and hypothyroidism disrupts muscle glycogen metabolism, it is important to keep in mind differential diagnoses and their comorbidities when trying to determine whether signs and symptoms are either primary or secondary ...

  5. Wolff–Chaikoff effect - Wikipedia

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    Patients with Graves' disease are more sensitive than euthyroid patients, [5] and iodine has been used to manage Graves' disease. The Wolff–Chaikoff effect is known as an autoregulatory phenomenon that inhibits organification in the thyroid gland , the formation of thyroid hormones inside the thyroid follicle, and the release of thyroid ...

  6. Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis - Wikipedia

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    Treatment of the thyroid disease usually leads to resolution of the paralytic attacks. Depending on the nature of the disease, the treatment may consist of thyrostatics (drugs that reduce production of thyroid hormone), radioiodine , or occasionally thyroid surgery.

  7. Kocher–Debre–Semelaigne syndrome - Wikipedia

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    This disease is very rare as only less than 10% of children with hypothyroid myopathy develops this condition. [ citation needed ] Along with features of hypothyroidism (such as lethargy, slow heart rate, cold intolerance, dry skin, and hoarse voice) the main additional feature is muscle hypertrophy.

  8. Thyroid hormone resistance - Wikipedia

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    The syndrome can present with variable symptoms, even between members of the same family harboring the same mutation. [1] Typically most or all tissues are resistant to thyroid hormone, so despite raised measures of serum thyroid hormone the individual may appear euthyroid (have no symptoms of over- or underactivity of the thyroid gland).

  9. Ipodate sodium - Wikipedia

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    Long-term treatment of Graves' disease with ipodate sodium (500 mg, daily) given by mouth reduced levels of T3 and T4 in the patients. [1] This was done with minimal side effects, indicating possible clinical usefulness.