W. Chong et C. Johnston, UNSUSPECTED THYROTOXICOSIS AND HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM IN ASIAN WOMEN, Postgraduate medical journal, 73(858), 1997, pp. 234-236
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.