Hyperthyroidism – symptoms and signs. 


Symptoms:


Weight loss, Increased appetite, Irritability/behaviour change, Restlessness, Malaise, Stiffness, Muscle weakness, Tremor, Choreoathetosis, Breathlessness, Palpitation, Heat intolerance, Itching, Thirst, Vomiting, Diarrhoea, Eye complaints, Goitre, Oligomenorrhoea, Loss of libido, Gynaecomastia, Onycholysis, Tall stature (in children), Sweating 


Signs:


Tremor,

Hyperkinesis,

Psychosis, 

Tachycardia or atrial 

fibrillation, 

Full pulse,

Warm vasodilated

peripheries, 

Systolic hypertension, 

Cardiac failure, 

Exophthalmos, 

Lid lag and stare, 

Conjunctival oedema, 

Ophthalmoplegia,

Periorbital oedema, 

Goitre, bruit, 

Weight loss, 

Proximal myopathy, 

Proximal muscle wasting, 

Onycholysis, 

Palmar erythema, 

Graves' dermopathy, 

Thyroid acropachy, 

Pretibial myxoedema


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