Síndrome de Down e hipertiroidismo.: Comunicación de 3 casos

We report three patients with Down syndrome that developed a hyperthyroidism. A 25 years old female and a 18 years old male had Basedow Graves disease and were treated with radioiodine. A 19 years old male had a Hashitoxicosis and is presently being treated with propylthiouracyl. Clinical and subcli...

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Autor principal:	Sanz R,Jorge
Lenguaje:	Spanish / Castilian
Publicado:	Sociedad Médica de Santiago 1999
Materias:	Down syndrome Hyperthyroidism Hypothyroidism Thyroiditis, autoimmune
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0034-988719990008000112005-11-14Síndrome de Down e hipertiroidismo.: Comunicación de 3 casosSanz R,Jorge Down syndrome Hyperthyroidism Hypothyroidism Thyroiditis, autoimmune We report three patients with Down syndrome that developed a hyperthyroidism. A 25 years old female and a 18 years old male had Basedow Graves disease and were treated with radioiodine. A 19 years old male had a Hashitoxicosis and is presently being treated with propylthiouracyl. Clinical and subclinical thyroid dysfunction is frequent in patients with Down syndrome and the risk increases with age. Therefore a surveillance with yearly TSH measurements should be done in these patients, since signs and symptoms of thyroid disease are barely detected in them. Hypothyroidism is the most frequent dysfunction but hyperthyroidism is also associated to Down syndrome.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.127 n.8 19991999-08-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98871999000800011es10.4067/S0034-98871999000800011
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language	Spanish / Castilian
topic	Down syndrome Hyperthyroidism Hypothyroidism Thyroiditis, autoimmune
spellingShingle	Down syndrome Hyperthyroidism Hypothyroidism Thyroiditis, autoimmune Sanz R,Jorge Síndrome de Down e hipertiroidismo.: Comunicación de 3 casos
description	We report three patients with Down syndrome that developed a hyperthyroidism. A 25 years old female and a 18 years old male had Basedow Graves disease and were treated with radioiodine. A 19 years old male had a Hashitoxicosis and is presently being treated with propylthiouracyl. Clinical and subclinical thyroid dysfunction is frequent in patients with Down syndrome and the risk increases with age. Therefore a surveillance with yearly TSH measurements should be done in these patients, since signs and symptoms of thyroid disease are barely detected in them. Hypothyroidism is the most frequent dysfunction but hyperthyroidism is also associated to Down syndrome.
author	Sanz R,Jorge
author_facet	Sanz R,Jorge
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title	Síndrome de Down e hipertiroidismo.: Comunicación de 3 casos
title_short	Síndrome de Down e hipertiroidismo.: Comunicación de 3 casos
title_full	Síndrome de Down e hipertiroidismo.: Comunicación de 3 casos
title_fullStr	Síndrome de Down e hipertiroidismo.: Comunicación de 3 casos
title_full_unstemmed	Síndrome de Down e hipertiroidismo.: Comunicación de 3 casos
title_sort	síndrome de down e hipertiroidismo.: comunicación de 3 casos
publisher	Sociedad Médica de Santiago
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Síndrome de Down e hipertiroidismo.: Comunicación de 3 casos

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