myxedema/nausea

Graves' disease is an autoimmune disease, which can manifest with a variety of extrathyroidal clinical syndromes like ophthalmopathy, pretibial myxedema (dermopathy), acropathy, cardiomyopathy, and encephalopathy. Though quite rare, this disease can also manifest with gastrointestinal symptoms such

Recombinant TSH is effective in providing exogenous TSH stimulation for patients with differentiated thyroid cancer on thyroid hormone-suppressive therapy. It allows for detection of thyroid remnant and metastases by radioiodine scan and by serum thyroglobulin determination. The sensitivity and

Primary hypothyroidism may be associated with enlargement of the sella turcica, due to thyrotroph hyperplasia, in its turn due to the lack of feedback control by thyroid hormones. It may develop independently of the severity or of the duration of thyroid failure. A 42-year-old woman was referred to

Thyroid disease is common, and its effects on the gastrointestinal system are protean, affecting most hollow organs. Hashimoto disease, the most common cause of hypothyroidism, may be associated with an esophageal motility disorder presenting as dysphagia or heartburn. Dyspepsia, nausea, or vomiting