Severe right heart failure in a patient with Grave's disease

Clin Cardiol. 1996 Nov;19(11):903-5. doi: 10.1002/clc.4960191113.

Abstract

This brief report presents a patient with isolated right heart failure and two rare underlying causes, hyperthyroidism and dysplastic tricuspid valve. Repair of the tricuspid valve and treatment of the hyperthyroidism were both essential for successful treatment of the right heart failure. Most important, recrudescence of hyperthyroidism in this patient was associated with reappearance of florid right heart failure. This report provides further information about a potential linkage of hyperthyroidism and severe right heart failure.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Antithyroid Agents / therapeutic use
  • Echocardiography, Doppler, Color
  • Echocardiography, Transesophageal
  • Graves Disease / complications*
  • Graves Disease / drug therapy
  • Heart Failure / etiology*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Propylthiouracil / therapeutic use
  • Tricuspid Valve / pathology
  • Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency / complications
  • Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency / diagnostic imaging
  • Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency / surgery

Substances

  • Antithyroid Agents
  • Propylthiouracil