Tuesday, March 25, 2008

What are the clinical manifestations of hyperthyroidism?

In hyperthyroidism, diffuse toxic goiter (Graves' disease) the most common, more common in women, can reduce the incidence can be acute illness can be light weight, typical performance: A high metabolic syndrome patients often unable to ① fatigue, bulimia, and wasting more water. ② Bore hyperhidrosis, skin warm and humid, with low heat. Crisis can be a high fever. Second, the spirit of the nervous system nervous, to say hyperactivity, and tension this way, agitation, irritability, disturbed sleep, thinking not concentrate, memory decline. Sometimes there are hallucinations, and even the performance of mania or schizophrenia. Dual performance for the man of depression, looked indifferent. Can also hand, eyelids, Shengua such as minor tremors. Third, the cardiovascular system can lightheadedness, heart palpitations, chest tightness, shortness of breath. By fast heart rate, weight have atrial fibrillation, heart failure and expand. Elevated systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure decreased pulse pressure increases. 4, digestive system often appetite hyperthyroidism, thinner and more fresh. Elderly patients with hyperthyroidism have anorexia and anorexia. Frequent diarrhea. 5, musculoskeletal system and the majority of patients with myasthenia gravis is muscle atrophy. Chronic proximal myopathy is unable to muscle atrophy and male patients to be associated with periodic paralysis. 6, female reproductive system often reduce or amenorrhea, menstruation, male impotence, and sometimes men, such as breast development. 7, most showed diffuse goiter, symmetry swelling, swelling with the degree of severity of hyperthyroidism no obvious relationship can be moved up and down with swallowing action. Tremor is palpable, listening vascular murmur. 8. Eye on the performance of Non-wrinkle, as under the eyelid later charged; exophthalmos and less blink, split wide cohesion difficult. Exophthalmos without feeling benign and malignant eye symptoms. Exophthalmos also known as a vicious invasion of exophthalmos, endocrine exophthalmos, in the eye of 18 mm and above, there are eye muscle paralysis, such as orbital edema, patients often v. photophobia, tears, eye pain stings. Nine other patients have mild anemia. Performance of the elderly and the children often do not typical. Therefore, hyperthyroidism typical performance can be summarized as follows: exophthalmos, neck thick, exciting outlook, Pare, sweating, hand tremors; diarrhea, bulimia, myasthenia gravis, lightheadedness, heart palpitations, suffering from weight loss, menstrual chaos; benign exophthalmos without feeling. Malignant eye symptoms.

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