Acute compartment syndrome in a hypothyroid patient

Acute compartment syndrome (ACS) is caused by conditions that either decrease the size of the compartment of increase the content of the compartment. Intracompartmental pressures are raised, thereby initiating a sequence of events that results in myoneural injury. Although limb trauma is the most co...

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Published inThyroid (New York, N.Y.) Vol. 5; no. 4; p. 305
Main Authors Hsu, S I, Thadhani, R I, Daniels, G H
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.08.1995
Subjects
Adult
Compartment Syndromes - diagnosis
Compartment Syndromes - etiology
Compartment Syndromes - surgery
Female
Humans
Hypothyroidism - complications
Hypothyroidism - diagnosis
Pakistan - ethnology
Thyrotropin - blood
Thyroxine - blood
Triiodothyronine - blood
United States
United States
Pakistan
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Summary:Acute compartment syndrome (ACS) is caused by conditions that either decrease the size of the compartment of increase the content of the compartment. Intracompartmental pressures are raised, thereby initiating a sequence of events that results in myoneural injury. Although limb trauma is the most common and well-organized etiology of ACS, the cause is frequently not readily apparent. Thyroid disease is not a commonly recognized cause of ACS; only one case of ACS associated with hypothyroidism has been previously reported. We now describe a second case of ACS in a patient with severe hypothyroidism and discuss the possible pathogenesis of this association.
ISSN:1050-7256
1557-9077
DOI:10.1089/thy.1995.5.305