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THYROTOXIC MYOPATHY ASSOCIATED WITH SUBACUTE THYROIDITIS
- Source :
- Clinical Endocrinology. 20:307-312
- Publication Year :
- 1984
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 1984.
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Abstract
- We report a case of subacute thyroiditis complicated by thyrotoxic myopathy. Previously thyrotoxic myopathy has been described as being associated with Graves' disease. The patient in this study was a 35-year-old man who developed proximal dominant muscular weakness and atrophy during the course of subacute thyroiditis. His myopathic symptoms regressed as his serum thyroxine and triiodothyronine levels returned to normal, however it took a relatively long period of time for them to do so. This suggests that marked myopathy may develop even in cases of subacute thyroiditis if the thyrotoxic state persists for a long period of time.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Thyroiditis
medicine.medical_specialty
endocrine system diseases
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Endocrinology
Serum thyroxine
Atrophy
Muscular Diseases
Internal medicine
Long period
medicine
Humans
Myopathy
Subacute thyroiditis
Triiodothyronine
Thyrotoxic myopathy
business.industry
Muscular weakness
medicine.disease
Muscular Atrophy
Thyroxine
medicine.symptom
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13652265 and 03000664
- Volume :
- 20
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical Endocrinology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1b054f1a3d72937deb218ffce3e5fa7d