Thyroid Storm

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Abstract
Thyroid storm, or thyrotoxic crisis, generally defined as a syndrome in which life-threatening augmentation of the manifestations of hyperthyroidism occurs in association with fever, substantial tachycardia and disturbed function of the central nervous system, is a grave medical emergency. The decline in surgical treatment of diffuse toxic goiter and improved preoperative preparation with antithyroid drugs of patients still subjected to subtotal thyroidectomy have not only diminished the frequency of storm but also resulted in its occurring more often in a medical than in a surgical setting. In the past decade, improvements in the therapy of this complication and perhaps some . . .