UNSUSPECTED THYROTOXICOSIS AND HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM IN ASIAN WOMEN

Authors
CHONG W JOHNSTON C
Citation
W. Chong et C. Johnston, UNSUSPECTED THYROTOXICOSIS AND HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM IN ASIAN WOMEN, Postgraduate medical journal, 73(858), 1997, pp. 234-236
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Postgraduate medical journal → ACNP
ISSN journal
00325473
Volume
73
Issue
858
Year of publication
1997
Pages
234 - 236
Database
ISI
SICI code
0032-5473(1997)73:858<234:UTAHGI>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
This report describes three women with hyperemesis gravidarum caused b y previously undiagnosed thyrotoxicosis. All three women were eight we eks pregnant and only one woman had typical features of thyrotoxicosis . Hyperemesis could not be controlled by anti-emetics. The patients we re successfully treated with antithyroid drugs. Anti-thyroid treatment does not need to be continued once resolution of symptoms and thyroto xicosis have occurred.