SYMPATHOMIMETIC DRUG-ABUSE MASKING AN ENDOGENOUS HYPERADRENERGIC STATE, GRAVES-DISEASE

Authors
JACOBSON T STECKLER T WILSON BE
Citation
T. Jacobson et al., SYMPATHOMIMETIC DRUG-ABUSE MASKING AN ENDOGENOUS HYPERADRENERGIC STATE, GRAVES-DISEASE, Behavioral medicine, 20(2), 1994, pp. 91-94
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,Psychiatry,"Behavioral Sciences
Journal title
Behavioral medicine → ACNP
ISSN journal
08964289
Volume
20
Issue
2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
91 - 94
Database
ISI
SICI code
0896-4289(1994)20:2<91:SDMAEH>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
Sympathomimetic drug use or abuse in a thyrotoxic individual can be cl inically devastating as a result of enhanced cellular sensitivity to a drenergic stimulation. Thus, it is critical to recognize thyrotoxicosi s in a patient with coexistent sympathomimetic drug abuse. This case r eport describes a patient with Graves' disease and severe hyperadrener gic symptomatology that was thought to result from sympathomimetic dru g abuse.