Severe hypothyroidism can lead to myxedema crisis (also called myxedema coma). This rare complication, which may be triggered by an infection, illness, extreme cold, or medication, can cause ...

If you lack thyroid hormone for a very long period of time, you risk a dangerous condition called myxedema coma. This ...

of desiccated thyroid per kilogram of body weight per day the level remained subnormal for sixteen weeks. In the fourteen-year-old boy with juvenile myxedema treated with 5.6 mg. of desiccated ...

Myxedema coma: use IV levothyroxine ... colestipol), ion exchange resins (eg, kayexalate). Thyroid levels may be affected by clofibrate, estrogens, heroin, methadone, 5-fluorouracil, mitotane ...

We may recognise in myxoedema three principal lines of abnormality. First, intellectual; consisting in slowness of thought, in slowness of volition, in loss of memory, in irritability of temper ...