The Lewis A . Conner Memorial Lecture The Heart and the Thyroid : with Particular Reference to J 131 Treatment of Heart Disease
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The physiologic, pathologic, and clinical interrelationships between the thyroid and the cardiovascular system are discussed. The therapeutic effects of hy-pothylroidism induced by J131 to lessen the work of the heart are (lescribe(l in 39 euthyroid patients with intractable advanced angina pectolis or congestive failure. Only patients were treated who were seriously incapacitated despite all conventional forms of therapii for many months or years. The results of two confirmatory series of cases similarly treated by others are reviewed.
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