The use of iatrogenic hypothyroidism to treat intractable angina.
An elderly man who had incapacitating angina, despite coronary artery surgery and maximal medical management was deliberately made hypothyroid with radio-iodine. Five years later he was virtually free of chest pain. There is still a limited number of patients in whom this is a useful form of therapy, despite the attendant morbidity of myxoedema.
D000368:Aged; D000787:Angina Pectoris / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D006801:Humans; D007037:Hypothyroidism / Q000209:etiology*; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D008297:Male; D009230:Myxedema / Q000209:etiology
D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes