Template:Thyrotoxicosis clinical features
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Classic Triad
- Hyperthermia
- Often marked (40 - 41C)[1]
- Tachycardia
- Often out of proportion to fever [2]
- Altered mental status (agitation, confusion, delirium stupor, coma, seizure)
- May also have:
- Goiter
- Thyrotoxic stare, lid retraction
- Hyperhidrosis
- Thermoregulatory dysfunction
- Central nervous system dysfunction
- Agitation, tremor
- Delirium, psychosis, extreme lethargy
- Seizure, coma
- Gastrointestinal-hepatic dysfunction
- Diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain
- Unexplained jaundice, Hepatomegaly
- Cardiovascular dysfunction
- Tachycardia, palpitations
- Congestive heart failure, dyspnea
- Pedal edema
- A. fib
- Widened pulse pressure
- ↑ Thiessen, M. (2018). Thyroid and Adrenal Disorders in Rosen's emergency medicine: Concepts and clinical practice (9th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier/Saunders.
- ↑ Thiessen, M. (2018). Thyroid and Adrenal Disorders in Rosen's emergency medicine: Concepts and clinical practice (9th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier/Saunders.