Year 2015 / Volume 107 / Number 9
Letter to the Editor
Severe acute liver failure and thyrotoxicosis: an unusual association

575-576

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2015.3607/2014

Adrian Sousa Domínguez,

Abstract
Thyrotoxicosis is defined as the clinical syndrome resulting from the excess of thyroid hormones in the organism. It has several causes and a wide range of clinical manifestations, from mild tachycardia up to multiple organ failure. Although it is not unusual that patients with thyroid dysfunction have abnormal liver-function test these are usually mild and the initial presentation as severe liver failure is exceptional. We present a case report of a patient who developed a severe acute liver failure due to a non-controlled hyperthyroidsm. Also we conducted a review of all similar cases reported to date in the literature.
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Publication history

Received: 13/11/2014

Accepted: 18/01/2015

Online First: 14/07/2015

Published: 29/08/2015

Article revision time: 62 days

Article Online First time: 243 days

Article editing time: 289 days


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