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Pediatr Emerg Care
; 33(7): 486-488, 2017 Jul.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-27050737
RESUMO
Childhood 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.