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7127923

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
1982-12-16
pubmed:abstractText
We describe clinical, echocardiographic, and catheterization findings that were present initially and during therapy in a myxedematous patient with a large pericardial effusion and tamponade. Treatment with thyroxine resulted in a marked improvement of most of the clinical features of hypothyroidism and some improvement in cardiac function. However, the pericardial effusion as well as clinical and laboratory evidence of tamponade persisted for 2 months after full replacement doses of T4 had been achieved. The tamponade was finally relieved by fenestration of the parietal pericardium. These findings are consistent with evidence of an abnormality of pericardial drainage that persists for months after other thyroid hormone dependent functions are normalized by thyroxine replacement. Therefore prompt surgical drainage rather than dependence on medical therapy alone is indicated in myxedematous patients who have cardiac tamponade.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0160-9289
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
5
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
459-63
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1982
pubmed:articleTitle
Prolonged persistence of a large pericardial effusion and hemodynamic evidence of cardiac tamponade during treatment of myxedema.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports