Year: 1946
Type: article
Abstract: There are few diseases that are so frequently mistaken in general practice as diseases of the thyroid gland.This not only applies to mild cases of thyrotoxicosis (Linnell, 1945) but also to cases of hypothyroidism and quite often even to fully developed cases of myxoedema with all its typical signs.Just as in hyperthyroidism, in which the cardiac changes may be astonishingly small, there are instances of profound hypothyroidism with normal circulatory findings.Usually, however, the heart appears dilated to the right and to the left, and the cardiac sounds are muffled and soft.The term myxcedema heart has been applied to a condition found in
Source: Heart
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.8.1.25
Authors: R. Schnitzer, D. Gutmann
Language: English
Subfield: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2290083227