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ReviewTouchREVIEWS in endocrinology2023

Thyrotoxic Cardiomyopathy: State of the Art.

Juan Eduardo Quiroz-Aldave, María Del Carmen Durand-Vásquez, Carlos Jhonatan Lobato-Jeri, Juan-Manuel Muñoz-Moreno, Diana Carolina Deutz Gómez Condori, Sofía Pilar Ildefonso-Najarro, Felipe Contreras-Yametti, Francisca Zavaleta-Gutiérrez, Luis Concepción-Urteaga, Marcio José Concepción-Zavaleta

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In one paragraph

Review in TouchREVIEWS in endocrinology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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18citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Thyrotoxicosis in MCT8 deficiency.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2026
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  14. Thyroid and cardiovascular diseases.Turkish journal of medical sciences · 2024
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  18. Coincident Thyrotoxic Hypokalemic Periodic Paralysis and Cardiomyopathy.Journal of investigative medicine high impact case reports
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Juan Eduardo Quiroz-AldaveDivision of Medicine, Hospital de Apoyo Chepén, Chepén, Perú.
María Del Carmen Durand-VásquezDivision of Family Medicine, Hospital de Apoyo Chepén, Chepén, Perú.
Carlos Jhonatan Lobato-JeriDivision of Cardiology, Clínica La Luz, Lima, Perú.
Juan-Manuel Muñoz-MorenoDivision of Cardiology, Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliati Martins, Lima, Perú.
Diana Carolina Deutz Gómez CondoriDivision of Endocrinology, Hospital Nacional Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen, Lima, Perú.
Sofía Pilar Ildefonso-NajarroDivision of Endocrinology, Hospital Nacional Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen, Lima, Perú.
Felipe Contreras-YamettiDivision of Internal Medicine, WellStar Health System Cobb Hospital, Austell, GA, USA.
Francisca Zavaleta-GutiérrezDivision of Neonatology, Hospital Belén de Trujillo, Trujillo, Perú.
Luis Concepción-UrteagaSchool of Medicine, Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, Trujillo, Perú.
Marcio José Concepción-ZavaletaDivision of Endocrinology, Clínica Javier Prado, Lima, Perú.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thyroid hormones, mainly triiodothyronine, have genomic and non-genomic effects on cardiomyocytes related to the contractile function of the heart. Thyrotoxicosis, which is the set of signs and symptoms derived from the excess of circulating thyroid hormones, leads to increased cardiac output and decreased systemic vascular resistance, increasing the volume of circulating blood and causing systolic hypertension. In addition, the shortening of the refractory period of cardiomyocytes produces sinus tachycardia and atrial fibrillation. This leads to heart failure. Approximately 1% of patients with thyrotoxicosis develop thyrotoxic cardiomyopathy, a rare but potentially fatal form of dilated cardiomyopathy. Thyrotoxic cardiomyopathy represents a diagnosis of exclusion, and prompt identification is crucial as it is a reversible cause of heart failure, and heart function can be recovered after achieving a euthyroid state using antithyroid drugs. Radioactive iodine therapy and surgery are not the best initial therapeutic approach. Moreover, it is important to manage cardiovascular symptoms, for which beta blockers are the first-line therapeutic option.

Indexed as

Cardiomyopathiesheart failurehyperthyroidismthyroidthyrotoxicosis

Identifiers

PMID37313242
PMCPMC10258619

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