{"id":39100,"date":"2024-01-06T07:56:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T06:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/uncategorized\/myxoedema-symptoms-and-monitoring\/"},"modified":"2024-02-15T09:55:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T08:55:53","slug":"myxoedema-symptoms-and-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/general-medicine\/myxoedema-symptoms-and-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Myxoedema: symptoms and monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Myxoedema <\/strong>is the metabolic decompensation due to reduced thyroid hormone uptake. This condition is very rare in pediatric age.<\/p><p>The main <strong>symptoms <\/strong>are drowsiness, lethargy, hypoventilation, hypothermia, and coma. Immediate procedures to be performed are heat support, maintenance of respiration, and maintenance of circulation.<\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Examinations&#13;\nand monitoring<\/h3><p><strong>Tests <\/strong>to be performed immediately are: arterial PH, CBC, azotemia, blood glucose, electrolytes, transaminases, TSH, FT3, FT4, T3, T4.<\/p><p>Clinical <strong>monitoring<\/strong> with cardiology checks, psychological evaluation, and regression of symptoms is necessary. Regarding instrumental and laboratory monitoring perform thyroid function tests, ultrasonography, thyroid gland scintigraphy, brain MRI.<\/p><p>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediserve.it\/\">Mediserve<\/a>&#8216;s Medical Emergencies in Pediatrics.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myxoedema is the metabolic decompensation due to reduced thyroid hormone uptake. This condition is very rare in pediatric age. The &#8230; <a title=\"Myxoedema: symptoms and monitoring\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/general-medicine\/myxoedema-symptoms-and-monitoring\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Myxoedema: symptoms and monitoring\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8782,"featured_media":22097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[]},"categories":[1741],"tags":[2546,2544,2118],"corpo":[1770],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-39100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-medicine","tag-metabolic-decompensation","tag-myxoedema","tag-symptoms","corpo-endocrine-system","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39100"},{"taxonomy":"corpo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/corpo?post=39100"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=39100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}