Sandbox spinalcord: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Aditya Ganti (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
Aditya Ganti (talk | contribs) |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
==Risk factors== | ==Risk factors== | ||
Common risk factors that can trigger myxedema coma in patients with hypothyroidism include: | Common risk factors that can trigger myxedema coma in patients with hypothyroidism include: | ||
*Hypothermia | |||
*CVA | |||
*CHF | |||
*Infections ( pneumonia, influenza, UTI, sepsis) | |||
*Drugs ( Anesthestics, narcotics, amidirone, Lithium carbonate) 6486153 | |||
*GI bleeding | |||
*Metabolic disturbances(Hypoglycemia, hyponatremia, acidosis, hypercalcemia, hypoxemia, hypercapneia) | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||
Revision as of 00:14, 20 September 2017
Risk factors
Common risk factors that can trigger myxedema coma in patients with hypothyroidism include:
- Hypothermia
- CVA
- CHF
- Infections ( pneumonia, influenza, UTI, sepsis)
- Drugs ( Anesthestics, narcotics, amidirone, Lithium carbonate) 6486153
- GI bleeding
- Metabolic disturbances(Hypoglycemia, hyponatremia, acidosis, hypercalcemia, hypoxemia, hypercapneia)
History
- History of antecedent thyroid disease
- History of radioiodine therapy or thyroidectomy
- Discontinuation of medications.
Historical Perspective
- In 874, Gull was the first physician to describe hypothyroidism under the name myxedema due to its characteristics of swollen skin and its mucin content.
- In 1883, Semon was the first to establish a relationship between patients undergoing thyroidectomy and later developing symptoms of myxedema.
- In 1888, Clinical Society of London presented a paper describing that extreme loss of thyroid harmone can lead to cretinism and myxedema.
- In 1891, Murray was the first physician to discover cure for myxedema by using hypodermic injections of sheep thyroid extract.