A case of muscular hypertrophy in a hypothyroid 12-year-old male child, known as Kocher Debre Semelaigne syndrome, is reported with review of the relevant literature. The patient responded well to l-thyroxine therapy.
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Children (Basel)
March 2024
Department of Pediatrics, Medical University-Pleven, 5100 Pleven, Bulgaria.
Hypothyroid myopathy is uncommon in childhood. Severe hypothyroid myopathy observed in paediatric practice is a part of Kocher-Debré-Semelaigne syndrome (KDSS, OR-PHA:2349), a rare disorder characterised by muscular pseudohypertrophy and long-standing moderate-to-severe hypothyroidism. We present a pubertal girl with KDSS diagnosed with severe myopathy and significantly limited mobility and progressively increasing pains in the lumbar area, hip joints, and the lower limbs.
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October 2023
General Medicine, Christian Medical College and Hospital Vellore, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
A man in his 20s presented with a 6-year history of calf muscle hypertrophy, proximal muscle weakness and muscle cramps. Along with this, he also had patchy hair loss, facial puffiness and slurring of speech. On examination, he had mild symmetrical proximal muscle weakness, a delayed relaxation phase of his deep tendon reflexes and a rare neurological sign of myoedema.
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December 2023
Department of Nephrology, University of Health Sciences, Bakırkoy Dr. Sadi Konuk Education and Research Hospital, Zuhuratbaba, Tevfik Sağlam Avenue, No: 11, Bakırkoy, 34147, Istanbul, Turkey.
Background: Thyroid hormone synthesis is a complex process in the human body. Although the thyroid gland is essential for thyroid hormone synthesis, skeletal muscles also have crucial roles in thyroid hormone metabolism due to the deiodinase activities of the muscle cells. Hypothyroidism-related myopathy is a well-known entity.
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March 2022
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Background And Aim: Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) is a common endocrinopathy in children, particularly in females. Clinical overt presentation of hypothyroidism in HT includes mild to very severe forms, characterised by impairment of many body functions and organs, such as heart, brain, muscles, ovaries and liver.
Case: we report the case of a 14-year-old girl, with severe hypothyroidism due to a late diagnosis of HT during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Cell Res
July 2019
IMBA, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1030, Vienna, Austria.
Cancer is a major and still increasing cause of death in humans. Most cancer cells have a fundamentally different metabolic profile from that of normal tissue. This shift away from mitochondrial ATP synthesis via oxidative phosphorylation towards a high rate of glycolysis, termed Warburg effect, has long been recognized as a paradigmatic hallmark of cancer, supporting the increased biosynthetic demands of tumor cells.
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