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Cardiac involvement in thyroid hormone resistance.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism - 1 Jan 2002
Kahaly George J, Matthews Clare H, Mohr-Kahaly Susanne, Richards Chris A, Chatterjee V Krishna K
Abstract excerpt
To analyze the cardiovascular alterations thought to occur in resistance to thyroid hormone (RTH), cardiac involvement in 54 patients with RTH was investigated with the help of two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography. Data from 41 of 54 adult subjects with RTH were also compared with those of 24 and 20 cases with hyperthyroidism (H) and hypothyroidism (h), respectively, as well as 22 healthy euthyroid...
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