[Thyrotoxicosis in heart recipients].
Between 1992 and 2000 in the group of the patients before heart transplantation, amiodarone induced thyrotoxicosis occurred in 5 (4 male and 1 female, average age 45.5 years) patients. In four of the patients of that group orthotopic heart transplantation was done. Postoperative period in the patients with euthyreosis was uncomplicated. One patient died after HTx because of thyroid crisis.
Skirzyńska
Dorota
D
Klinika Chirurgii Serca, Naczyń i Transplantologii Instytut Kardiologii Collegium Medicum Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Kraków.
Garlicki
Mirosław
M
Plicner
Dariusz
D
Wysocka
Teresa
T
Wierzbicki
Karol
K
Biernat
Marta
M
Sadowski
Jerzy
J
D000328:Adult; D000465:Algorithms; D000638:Amiodarone / Q000009:adverse effects*; D000889:Anti-Arrhythmia Agents / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000601:surgery; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011044:Poland; D011184:Postoperative Period; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013971:Thyrotoxicosis / Q000139:chemically induced*
D000889:Anti-Arrhythmia Agents; D000638:Amiodarone