Thyroid storm after choking
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Ana L. Creo
Abstract
Background:
A thyroid storm (TS) is a rare, but life-threatening condition in hyperthyroid patients. Mortality in adult TS patients may be as high as 10%. Typically, a trigger precipitates the storm in hyperthyroid patients.
Case presentation:
We report the case of an adolescent girl with untreated hyperthyroidism who developed fulminant TS after a significant choking episode. Initially, she was found to have neck swelling and tachycardia leading providers to suspect infection. She deteriorated after a CAT Scan (CT) was performed with iodine contrast, potentially worsening storm symptoms. Here, we describe the case, the treatment strategy and propose a treatment modification for pediatric patients.
Conclusions:
While many children are found to have minor abnormalities in thyroid studies, this case highlights the critical importance of prompt medical attention for any child with significantly elevated free thyroxine (FT4) levels as morbidity can occur when left untreated.
Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Research funding: None declared.
Employment or leadership: None declared.
Honorarium: None declared.
Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.
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- Frontmatter
- Original Articles
- Urinary bisphenol-A levels in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus
- The relationship between metabolic syndrome, cytokines and physical activity in obese youth with and without Prader-Willi syndrome
- Association of anthropometric measures and cardio-metabolic risk factors in normal-weight children and adolescents: the CASPIAN-V study
- The effect of obesity and insulin resistance on macular choroidal thickness in a pediatric population as assessed by enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography
- Hereditary 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D-resistant rickets (HVDRR): clinical heterogeneity and long-term efficacious management of eight patients from four unrelated Arab families with a loss of function VDR mutation
- Long-term thyroid disorders in pediatric survivors of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation after chemotherapy-only conditioning
- Screening for autoimmune thyroiditis and celiac disease in minority children with type 1 diabetes
- Resistance exercise alone improves muscle strength in growth hormone deficient males in the transition phase
- Sequential measurements of IGF-I serum concentrations in adolescents with Laron syndrome treated with recombinant human IGF-I (rhIGF-I)
- Symptomatic Rathke cleft cyst in paediatric patients – clinical presentations, surgical treatment and postoperative outcomes – an analysis of 38 cases
- Molecular genetics of tetrahydrobiopterin deficiency in Chinese patients
- Single center experience of biotinidase deficiency: 259 patients and six novel mutations
- Next-generation sequencing as a second-tier diagnostic test for newborn screening
- Case Reports
- Thyroid storm after choking
- Three new Brazilian cases of 17α-hydroxylase deficiency: clinical, molecular, hormonal, and treatment features
- Diazoxide toxicity in a child with persistent hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia of infancy: mixed hyperglycemic hyperosmolar coma and ketoacidosis
- Refractory hypoglycemia in a pediatric patient with desmoplastic small round cell tumor
