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Clinical phenotypes and prognosis of thyrotoxic heart failure and cardiomyopathy in patients hospitalized for acute heart failure.
ESC heart failure - 1 Aug 2021
Kositanurit Weerapat, Kittipibul Veraprapas, Srichomkwun Panudda, Boonyaratavej Smonporn, Puwanant Sarinya
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BACKGROUND: We sought to examine clinical characteristics and outcomes in patients hospitalized for acute heart failure (HF) and thyrotoxicosis. METHODS: Patients with thyrotoxic HF were compared with age and gender-matched patients hospitalized for acute HF (controls). Thyr-HF was defined by the Framingham criteria for HF and clinical hyperthyroidism. Thyrotoxic cardiomyopathy was defined as left ventricular...
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