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#372 Endocrine Emergencies featuring Dr. Sara Markley Webster

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Is There a Trigger for Thyroid Storm?

The autoimmune, it seems like autoimmune disease is kind of running, running gangs almost and together. Most surgeons appropriately will not take somebody who has uncontrolled hyperthyroidism into the org unless it's an emergency. Any kind of stressor or insult is going to tip them over into storm. Storm like mixodema coma and adrenal crisis has really high mortality.

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