ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION ASSOCIATED WITH THYROTOXICOSIS
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https://doi.org/10.47144/phj.v46i1.614Keywords:
Acute myocardial infarction, Thyrotoxicosis, Normal coronary arteries.Abstract
Objective: Thyrotoxicosis is the endocrine disorder which increases oxygendemand and at the same time can induce coronary vasospasm leading to acute
myocardial infarction. Patients with thyrotoxicosis induced acute myocardial
infarction are rare. The exact mechanism is still not known. The patients with
painless thyroiditis shows thyrotoxic phase during early phase which is the main
culprit for changes in cardiovascular hemodynamic and acute myocardial
infarction. Here, we present a 23 year old male patient without any risk factors of
cardiovascular disease presenting with acute myocardial infarction induced by
thyrotoxicosis due to painless thyroiditis.
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Gupta M, Pradhan D, Jian S, . L, Fei X, Sharma B. ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION ASSOCIATED WITH THYROTOXICOSIS. Pak Heart J [Internet]. 2013Jun.13 [cited 2024Nov.24];46(1). Available from: https://pakheartjournal1.pcs.org.pk/index.php/pk/article/view/614
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