HYPERTHYROIDISM-CLINICAL FEATURES

SUMMARY

GENERAL
1. Anxiety and restlessness
2. Irritability
3. Insomnia
4. Confusion, psychosis
5. Heat intolerance

FROM HEAD TO TOE
6. Alopecia
7. Warm skin
8. Exopthalmos
9. Lid-lag
10. Onycholysis
11. Tachycardia
12. AF
13. Hypertension
14. Dyspnoea
15. Menstrual irregularieties: oligo/amenorrhoea
16. Erectile dysfunction, impaired spermatogenesis in men
17. Apathetic hyperthyroidism: elderly patient with new-onset AF or depression

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