Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 332
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 332 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind, enter the medical trivia of FFFF.
Tag Hypothyroidism
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 331
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 331 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind, enter the medical trivia of FFFF.
Woltman sign
Woltman sign of myxedema: Slowness of both the contraction and the relaxation of muscles in hypothyroid patients, best seen as the “hung-up” ankle jerk and occurring because of mechanical factors and slowness of contraction time, as in myotonia and pseudomyotonia
Henry Woltman
Henry Woltman (1889 - 1964) was an American neurologist. Eponym: Woltman sign of myxedema (1924/1956) published by Chaney
Thyroid: Hypothyroidism
Medmastery: Thyroid Disease Masterclass course, explores the differences between primary and secondary hypothyroidism
Hypothyroidism
ECG features of hypothyroidism (myxoedema) main triad: Bradycardia; Low QRS voltage; Widespread T-wave inversion