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Treatment with intravenous triiodothyronine of colonic pseudo-obstruction caused by myxoedema

✍ Scribed by T. Batalis; Martin Muers; G. T. Royle


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1981
Tongue
English
Weight
104 KB
Volume
68
Category
Article
ISSN
0007-1323

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✦ Synopsis


PSEUDO-OBSTRUCTION of the colon caused by hypothyroidism is rare and carries a high mortality (1). We report a case in which it occurred in a patient already on a treatment with thyroxine and in whom rapid resolution was achieved using intravenous triiodothyronine.