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Heart size in thyrotoxicosis.
Sunmary (1) Enlargement of the heart was found in 35% of a group of older patients with thyrotoxicosis who had no evidence of associated heart disease. Atrial fibrillation was present in 48% of patients with cardiac enlargement and in 10% with a normal sized heart. Both complications were more common when there was associated heart disease. (2) In patients with an enlarged heart but no associat...
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Virtually all hormones secreted by major endocrine glands have a direct or indirect effect on the cardiovascular system; and although the precise relationship between excess thyroxin and heart disease has not been defined, thyrotoxic heart disease has been well recognized for over a century. Parry, in 1825, first described cardiac involvement in thyrotoxicosis, consisting of palpitations, irreg...
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In this report we discuss a patient with predominant right heart failure and pulmonary hypertension, caused by thyrotoxicosis due to Graves disease, which deteriorated to asystole, due to amiodarone administration for rapid atrial fibrillation.
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Congestive heart failure is a recognised complication of uncontrolled thyrotoxicosis but isolated right heart failure is rarely seen in association with thyrotoxicosis. Two cases of right heart failure associated with thyrotoxicosis are presented. In a 45-year-old man with right heart failure, investigations for all common secondary causes of right heart failure were negative. The only concurre...
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" Scire est nescire, nisi id me Scire alius sciret SPRING, 194:1. It would not be possible to deal at all fully with the scientific aspects of this subject in an article of reasonable length, and still less would it be possible to give a resume of the enormous literature that has grown up concerning it. My purpose is much simpler ; it is to present a record of personal experience and to offer s...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1968
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.44.518.885