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[Oedema and haemorrhagic diathesis in a 50-year-old woman with thyrotoxicosis]
1Abteilung für Innere Medizin, St. Josef-Hospital Troisdorf, Hospitalstr. 45, 53840, Troisdorf, Deutschland, anton.kozlov@josef-hospital.de.
Abstract:
We describe the case of a 50-year-old woman who presented with tachyarrhythmia, mild fever, peripheral oedema, ascites, epistaxis and gastrointestinal haemorrhage. Blood analysis revealed hyperthyroxinaemia. Analysis of thyroid-stimulating antibodies highlighted Graves' disease being the cause of the prevailing thyrotoxic crisis. Remarkable in this case of thyrotoxicosis is a liver affection without elevated transaminases but disturbed serum protein synthesis leading to hypalbuminaemic oedema and haemorrhagic complications. Thyrostatic treatment led to clinical response.
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