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[Thyrotoxicosis in heart recipients]
Dorota Skirzyńska1, Mirosław Garlicki, Dariusz Plicner
1Klinika Chirurgii Serca, Naczyń i Transplantologii Instytut Kardiologii Collegium Medicum Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Kraków.
Przeglad Lekarski
|January 9, 2003
Abstract:
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.