3,4 However, myasthenia gravis occurs in only a fraction of 1 per cent of the thyrotoxic population. 5 The two diseases often do not begin simultaneously; either one may precede the other by many ...

A rare but life-threatening complication of hyperthyroidism is a thyroid storm, also known as accelerated hyperthyroidism or thyrotoxic crisis. A thyroid storm is caused by a sudden and severe ...

The addition of β-adrenergic antagonists to the treatment regimen for heart failure has validated the neurohormonal hypothesis and provided much-improved outcomes. This benefit had been in ...

Two patients from the studies included in this review experienced thyroid storms, and one experienced Graves’ orbitopathy. Other rare symptoms identified include thyrotoxic periodic paralysis. Thyroid ...

The term dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) refers to a spectrum of heterogeneous myocardial disorders that are characterized by ventricular dilation and depressed myocardial performance in the absence of ...

Background A 45-year-old man presented with frontal headache and visual disturbances to our clinic. For the previous 5 years, he had been receiving treatment for long-lasting mild hyperthyroidism ...

Long-standing untreated hyperthyroidism can lead to a thyrotoxic crisis, also called a thyroid storm, a “rare, life-threatening clinical condition characterized by severe clinical manifestations ...

In this patient, the presence of sudden-onset aphasia could be a presentation of ischaemic stroke. Studies suggest that, stroke may be more frequent in the context of hyperthyroidism than ...

The outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in late 2019 caused coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which soon became a global pandemic. Efforts to ...