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Severe myxedema after cardiopulmonary bypass
Christopher J O'Connor1, Robert March, Kenneth J Tuman
1Department of Anesthesiology, Rush Medical College, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Lukes Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA. coconnor@rush.edu
Anesthesia and Analgesia
|December 31, 2002
Abstract
Implications:
We report a case illustrating the serious perioperative consequences that can potentially result from failure to provide adequate thyroid hormone therapy for severe hypothyroidism before cardiac surgery.