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Thyroid disease 1 - hormone disorders

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Medi-vision

Publication details: Hong Kong: Medi-vision, 2004Subject(s):

NLM classification:

WK 200

Summary: Two patients are demonstrated in this film, showing the extremes of hormonal upset due to autoimmune thyroid disease. The first patient has classical gross myxoedema at a stage that should not be seen nowadays; the transformation after four months on thyroxine is dramatic. The second man has Graves' disease, but had been labelled a respiratory cripple because of silicosis, and this contributed to the missed diagnosis. He too has classical physical signs, including atrial fibrillation...

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Two patients are demonstrated in this film, showing the extremes of hormonal upset due to autoimmune thyroid disease. The first patient has classical gross myxoedema at a stage that should not be seen nowadays; the transformation after four months on thyroxine is dramatic. The second man has Graves' disease, but had been labelled a respiratory cripple because of silicosis, and this contributed to the missed diagnosis. He too has classical physical signs, including atrial fibrillation...

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