Endocrine Abstracts

Hyperthyroidism is a common medical disorder that is not infrequently overlooked or misdiagnosed. Hyperthyroidism presents with multiple symptoms that vary according to the age of the patient, duration of illness, magnitude of hormone excess, and presence of co-morbid conditions. Over the last few decades, there are increasing numbers of reports of newly recognized manifestations of hyperthyroidism that are related to various body systems and may create a wide range of differential diagnosis. Lack of knowledge of the association between these findings and hyperthyroidism may lead to delay in diagnosis, misdiagnosis, or unnecessary investigations. Of the atypical manifestations of Graves’ disease, we have chosen anemia, vomiting, jaundice, and right heart failure to discuss. These manifestations were selected because each of them represents a very common clinical condition and they can be attributed to a wide variety of hematological, gastrointestinal, and cardiopulmonary causes. The presentation is based on clinical practice real life cases from which we move to the atypical manifestation in focus.

I describe four cases, three of them have been published.

I also prepared the slides based on a literature review and on an article of my own ‘A typical Clinical Manifestations of Graves’ Disease An Analysis in Depth’.

I received the first email from ECE only 4 days ago and I had no time to prepare before the deadline. I have prepared the PowerPoint presentation very quickly, but it will be much improved at the time of presentation.