title: Acute compartment syndrome in a hypothyroid patient.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003161:Compartment Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007037:Hypothyroidism / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D010154:Pakistan / Q000208:ethnology; D013972:Thyrotropin / Q000097:blood; D013974:Thyroxine / Q000097:blood; D014284:Triiodothyronine / Q000097:blood; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D014284:Triiodothyronine; D013972:Thyrotropin; D013974:Thyroxine