Finding the right balance between resistance and sensitivity: A review of the cardiac manifestations of the syndrome of resistance to thyroid hormone and the implications for treatment

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 252-255

  Kannan, Subramanian ^a   Safer, Joshua D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DILTIAZEM; HEPARIN; ISOPROTEIN; LEVOTHYROXINE; LIOTHYRONINE SODIUM; SALBUTAMOL; TERAZOSIN; THEOPHYLLINE; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR; THYROTROPIN; VERAPAMIL; WARFARIN;

ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR SYMPTOM; CARDIOVERSION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ENERGY; GRAVES DISEASE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; REVIEW; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROID HORMONE RESISTANCE; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84859822471     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: 19342403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP11075.RA     Document Type: Review

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