Cards (4)

    • Causes of hyperthyroidism
      • Graves' disease
      • Toxic multinodular goiter
      • Solitary toxic nodule/adenoma
      • De Quervain's thyroiditis (initial stage)
      • Post-partum thyroiditis
      • Exogenous thyroid hormone use
      • Pituitary adenoma
    • Graves' disease
      • Autoimmune disease [IgG antibodies binding to TSH receptor à continuous secretion of thyroid hormones]
      • Associated with other autoimmune diseases (pernicious anemia, myasthenia gravis)
      • Smoking increases the risk of developing Grave's disease & increases the risk of advanced grave's ophthalmopathy. Smoking may also decrease the effect of the treatment and increase the risk of relapse
    • Signs and symptoms of hyperthyroidism
      • Weight loss
      • Heat intolerance
      • Anxiety, nervousness, restlessness, irritability
      • Tremor
      • Diarrhea
      • Sweating
      • Tachycardia, palpitations, arrhythmias (A. Fib)
      • Oligomenorrhea
      • Lid lag and lid retraction
      • Goiter
      • Hyperreflexia
      • Systolic hypertension
    • Signs specific to Graves' disease
      • Exophthalmos and ophthalmoplegia
      • Pretibial myxedema
      • Thyroid bruit
      • Thyroid acropachy (finger clubbing)
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