Study Of Sick Euthyroid Syndrome In Organophosphate Poisoning– A Hospital Based One Year Cross Sectional Study In Kles’ Dr Prabhakar Kore Hospital And Medical Research Centre, Belagavi

Abstract

Background: Organoposphorus poisoning is one of the important case seen in the emergency department of hospital on day to day basis. Sick euthyroid syndrome is abnormal findings of thyroid function tests that occur among patients with non thyroid illness without having a history of hypothalmic pituitary dysfunction and malfunction of thyroid. Hypothyroidism with reduced level of hormones like T3(Triiodothyronine) is the prevalent thyroid dysfunction among acute illness of poisoning and can be detected in blood within 2 hours after the onset of severe muscular fatigue. As the disease progress there is severe manifestation of syndrome associated with hypothyroidism specially with T3 and T4 while, the level of TSH are slightly elevated or are not influenced. The Present study was carried out to assess the incidence of sick euthyroid syndrome in organophosphate poisoning as well to assess the socio demographic and clinical profile of patients with organophosphate poisoning.