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Anesthetic management for upper arm amputation in a patient with acute rapid atrial fibrillation and a large thyroid goiter: A case report.
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January 2025
Department of Anesthesiology, Yanbian University Hospital, Yanji, Jilin, P.R. China.
Rationale: Patients with atrial fibrillation and a large goiter have high perioperative risks and often cannot tolerate general anesthesia, making it necessary for us to explore new safe and effective anesthesia methods.
Patient Concerns: The patient presented with atrial fibrillation accompanied by rapid ventricular rate, a thrombus attached to the left atrial appendage, and a massive thyroid goiter compressing the airway.
Diagnosis: After the left humerus fracture surgery, the patient's internal fixation loosened and fractured, accompanied by infection, formation of sinus tracts, and suppuration.
Metastasis of clear cell renal cell carcinoma to hyalinizing trabecular tumor of the thyroid: A case report.
Oncol Lett
March 2025
Department of Pathology, Beilun District People's Hospital of Ningbo City, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315000, P.R. China.
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is the most common malignancy that metastasizes to the thyroid; however, metastasis of RCC to a primary tumor of the thyroid is rare. The present study reports the case of RCC that had metastasized to the primary thyroid tumor; namely, a hyalinizing trabecular tumor (HTT). Notably, the RCC was resected 2 years prior.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAcute Muscle Weakness in Graves' Disease: A Case Report of Hypokalemic Thyrotoxic Periodic Paralysis.
Cureus
November 2024
Emergency Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, USA.
Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis (TPP) is a rare but significant complication of hyperthyroidism, characterized by episodes of muscle weakness or paralysis and associated hypokalemia. This case report details a 30-year-old Latin American male with a history of Graves' disease, presenting with acute muscle weakness and hypokalemia. The patient reported transient episodes of weakness over recent weeks, culminating in a severe episode prompting emergency evaluation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIncreased incidence of Graves' disease during the COVID-19 pandemic in children and adolescents in the United States.
Front Endocrinol (Lausanne)
December 2024
Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Cohen Children's Medical Center, NorthwellHealth, New Hyde Park, NY, United States.
Introduction: Reports in adults indicate that Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and vaccination trigger the expression of autoimmune disease such as Graves' disease, but the incidence of new onset Graves' disease and its temporal relationship to the peaks of COVID-19 cases in children are unclear.
Methods: This is a retrospective study of children and adolescents with new-onset Graves' disease diagnosed between September 2017 and August 2022, N=156, mean age of 12.5 ± 4 year (y), with a range of 2.
Graves' Disease and Microcytic Anemia: A Forgotten Connection.
Am J Case Rep
November 2024
Department of Medicine, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VAMC, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
BACKGROUND Microcytic anemia has long been associated with thyrotoxicosis, but this correlation has been largely forgotten, and few literature references to this phenomenon exist since the 1980s. No mechanism for this association has been proposed. CASE REPORT Here, we present the case of a 56-year-old man who developed clinically significant hyperthyroidism in the setting of Graves' disease and simultaneous microcytic anemia.
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