Hello, students. My name is Mike Estefan, and I thank you for joining me today on this month's deep dive episode on the EM Clerkship Podcast.

This episode is going to be a deep dive into decompensated hypothyroidism, also known as mixedema coma.

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In this episode, we are going to be discussing decompensated hypothyroidism.

We'll start off by defining this disease process and covering some of the common underlying causes.

Then we'll move on to discuss the clinical presentation, which can be quite variable,

and next we'll cover diagnosis, the associated differential, and then finally end by discussing

clinical management and treatment. Decompensated hypothyroidism. You probably remember

learning this as mixed edema coma back in medical school.

They refer to the same disease process, but I believe the term decompensated hypothyroidism

better encompasses what the disease process actually is rather than the term mixed edema

coma.

This is because, as we will discuss later, mixedema is a

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