A fast end to a slow disease
Severe untreated hypothyroidism has been shown to affect cardiovascular function. While there have been a few reports of life-threatening arrhythmias occurring as a direct result of the hypothyroid state, very few cases of cardiac arrest have been reported in the literature. We report one such case...
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| author | Bilal Shaikh Muneebah Sohaib Raeda Alshantti Francisco Barrera Natia Murvelashvili |
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| description | Severe untreated hypothyroidism has been shown to affect cardiovascular function. While there have been a few reports of life-threatening arrhythmias occurring as a direct result of the hypothyroid state, very few cases of cardiac arrest have been reported in the literature. We report one such case of a middle-aged man who suffered a cardiac arrest that was attributed to severe untreated hypothyroidism. Keywords: Myxedema coma, Hypothyroidism, Cardiac arrest, Prolonged QTc |
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| spelling | doaj.art-94055c37c54e48689419d12d5f1804d82022-12-22T01:56:58ZengElsevierJournal of Clinical and Translational Endocrinology Case Reports2214-62452018-09-019911A fast end to a slow diseaseBilal Shaikh0Muneebah Sohaib1Raeda Alshantti2Francisco Barrera3Natia Murvelashvili4Corresponding author.; Presence Saint Francis Hospital, 355 Ridge Avenue, Evanston, IL, 60202, USAPresence Saint Francis Hospital, 355 Ridge Avenue, Evanston, IL, 60202, USAPresence Saint Francis Hospital, 355 Ridge Avenue, Evanston, IL, 60202, USAPresence Saint Francis Hospital, 355 Ridge Avenue, Evanston, IL, 60202, USAPresence Saint Francis Hospital, 355 Ridge Avenue, Evanston, IL, 60202, USASevere untreated hypothyroidism has been shown to affect cardiovascular function. While there have been a few reports of life-threatening arrhythmias occurring as a direct result of the hypothyroid state, very few cases of cardiac arrest have been reported in the literature. We report one such case of a middle-aged man who suffered a cardiac arrest that was attributed to severe untreated hypothyroidism. Keywords: Myxedema coma, Hypothyroidism, Cardiac arrest, Prolonged QTchttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214624518300261 |
| spellingShingle | Bilal Shaikh Muneebah Sohaib Raeda Alshantti Francisco Barrera Natia Murvelashvili A fast end to a slow disease Journal of Clinical and Translational Endocrinology Case Reports |
| title | A fast end to a slow disease |
| title_full | A fast end to a slow disease |
| title_fullStr | A fast end to a slow disease |
| title_full_unstemmed | A fast end to a slow disease |
| title_short | A fast end to a slow disease |
| title_sort | fast end to a slow disease |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214624518300261 |
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