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Myxedema. It is a rare life-threatening condition, resulting from long-term, undiagnosed hypothyroidism.
Symptoms include intense cold intolerance and drowsiness followed by profound lethargy and unconsciousness.
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What is the most severe form of hypothyroidism?
If a person has suffered from thyroid cancer, and has had their thyroid gland surgically removed in order to treat the cancer, that person would then have the most severe form of hypothyroidism, which is to have no thyroid gland at all.
What is the difference between myxedema and cretinism?
Myxedema is adult hypothyroidism whereas cretinism is neonatal hypothyroidism.
What is mexadema?
Myxedema is when someone has severe hypothyroidism. This is essentially the medical term a doctor will use when diagnosing a patient with the thyroid disorder.
A condition caused by deficiency of thyroid hormone in an adult?
Hypothyroidism where the thyroid is producing low levels of T3 and T4 in the body.
What is myxedema?
Myxedema or myxoedema is a medical condition resulting from severe hypothyroidism, the lack of thyroid gland hormone. At this time the cause of most hypothyroidism is autoimmune thyroiditis, a disease where the body's immune system attacks the cells of the thyroid gland as if they were infectuous invaders. Thyroiditis is more common in women than in men, and has a genetic component (runs in families).Myxoedema is hypothyroidism
What is an extreme form of hypothyroidism in adults called?
Thyroid diasease
What is the noun for severe?
The noun form for the adjective severe is severeness.
How bad is hypothyroidism?
Hypothyroidism means that the thyroid gland is not working at its optimal levels. The condition's severity can vary. The most severe form of hypothyroidism, Myxedema coma, is rare. In general, people suffering from hypothyroidism will experience unexplained weight gain, extreme fatigue, depression, an overall sense of weakness, sensitivity to the cold, and heavier menstrual periods in females. Most people with hypothyroidism are able to control the condition by taking medication that provides them with the missing thyroid hormone. This treatment will cause the thyroid levels to return to normal, but the replacement hormone must be taken for the rest of the individual's life.
What is extreme hypothyroidism in infancy and childhood called?
Hypothyroidism. (or congenital hypothyroidism)
Is the word severe an abstract noun?
The noun form for the adjective severe is severeness.
What is the pathophysiology of anemia in hypothyroidism?
pathophysiology of anemia in hypothyroidism
If your baby has hypothyroidism will he be mentally retarded?
Hypothyroidism does not cause mental "retardation". MR is caused by genetics usually. Hypothyroidism is treatable.
