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Pediatric emergency care · Jul 2017
Case ReportsPediatric Patient With Altered Mental Status and Hypoxemia: Case Report.
- Jeremy M Root, Marcela Vargas, Luigi R Garibaldi, and Richard A Saladino.
- From the *Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; †Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh; ‡Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; and §Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA.
- Pediatr Emerg Care. 2017 Jul 1; 33 (7): 486-488.
AbstractChildhood cases of myxedema coma are extremely rare. We report a case of a 5-year-old girl transferred to a tertiary care pediatric emergency department with hypoxemia and altered mental status and diagnosed with severe hypothyroidism and myxedema coma in the setting of acute influenza infection. Although it is rare, myxedema coma must remain in the differential diagnosis for altered mental status and organ dysfunction in the pediatric population.
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