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Thyrotoxic Periodic Paralysis: A Rare Cause of Quadriparesis in a Young and Seemingly Healthy Patient.
Medicina (Kaunas)
October 2024
Department of Internal Medicine, Clinical Emergency Hospital of Bucharest, 105402 Bucharest, Romania.
Hypokalemia is a common laboratory finding in hospitalized patients, typically resulting from insufficient potassium intake, renal or gastrointestinal losses, or intracellular shifts. While the underlying cause is often easily identifiable, certain cases present diagnostic challenges, and if left unrecognized, the consequences can be life-threatening. We report a rare and atypical case of severe symptomatic hypokalemia as the initial presentation of newly diagnosed Graves' disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Immunglobulin G4 (IgG4)-related disease was recently described and represents a systemic lymphoproliferative disorder. The orbital form of the disease manifests as chronic lid swelling and proptosis. Visual disturbances may occur due to apical orbital lesions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe clinical value of human leukocyte antigen HLA-DRB1 subtypes associated to Graves' disease in Romanian population.
Immunol Invest
January 2015
Department of Endocrinology, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 020021 Bucharest , Romania .
The aim of this study was to identify the primary susceptibility HLA-DRB1 alleles associated with GD in Romanian population and to seek whether specific HLA-DRB1 haplotypes are associated with differences in the clinical presentation of GD at diagnosis. Molecular typing of HLA-DRB1 alleles was performed in 77 Romanian Caucasian GD patients and 445 racially matched controls. In GD patients, age, presence of eye disease, goiter grade, autoantibody status and titer, TSH, FT4, FT3, TT3 levels were recorded at diagnosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF"Red eye" is a sign and the same time a symptom frequently met in the ophthalmological practice. The "red eye" is not always the clinical manifestation of a common conjunctivitis. We will present a case report of a patient who accused conjunctival hyperemia, lacrimation, foreign--body sensation; she was also describing recurrent conjunctivitis for the past year.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Postoperative hypoparathyroidism, an assumed risk in total thyroidectomy for Graves disease].
Chirurgia (Bucur)
April 2010
Secţia Chirurgie Generală, Spitalul Universitar de Urgenţă Elias.
Hypocalcemia is a common clinical occurrence and has many potential causes, one of which can be congenital or acquired hypoparathyroidism. Acquired hypoparathyroidism is most commonly the result of damage to the glands, usually to their blood supply, during thyroidectomy, parathyroidectomy, or radical neck dissection. We present the case of a 40-year-old female known with Waldenström macroglobulinemia, cronic hepatitis C, who has been diagnosed with Graves disease and associated ophtalmopathy in 2004 and treated with antithyroid drugs for 1.
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