A fatal case of recurrent amiodarone-induced thyrotoxicosis after percutaneous tracheotomy: a case report

BACKGROUND: Amiodarone is a widely used antiarrythmic drug, which may produce secondary effects on the thyroid. In 14–18% of amiodarone-treated patients, there is overt thyroid dysfunction, usually in the form of amiodarone-induced thyrotoxicosis, which can be difficult to manage with standard medic...

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Autores principales: Papaioannou, Vasilios, Terzi, Irene, Dragoumanis, Christos, Konstantonis, Dimitrios, Theodorou, Vassiliki, Pneumatikos, Ioannis
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2194711/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17999752
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-134

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2194711/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17999752
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-134

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