typical presentations of thyrotoxicosis
Last reviewed 10/2023
- increased heat production - warm, moist skin, heat intolerance
- telangiectasia, palmar erythema, pretibial myxoedema, onycholysis
- weight loss, increased appetite, increased frequency of bowel movement but frank diarrhoea is uncommon; steatorrhoea may occur; dyspepsia; like juvenile-onset diabetes mellitus, may cause a decrease in weight despite an increased appetite
- oligomenorrhoea
- tachycardia, exertional dyspnoea, hyperdynamic circulation; systolic hypertension is common and diastolic hypertension can occur in up to 30% of patients
- tiredness, irritability, nervousness
- fine tremor, hyperkinesia
- there are eye signs in Graves' disease
Others:
- occasionally, bone pain due to osteoporosis
- in elderly patients, there may be atrial fibrillation or cardiac failure
- alopecia, pruritus, pretibial myxoedema, acropachy