Why the study?
Does surgical removal of the entire thyroid gland relieve the diseased heart of its burden in patients with chronic intractable heart disease without thyrotoxicosis?
Population
Patients with chronic intractable heart disease without clinical or pathologic evidence of thyrotoxicosis
Design
Other
Authors
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Should not change current HF management; leaves open whether thyroid ablation merits reevaluation with modern methods.
Does surgical removal of the entire thyroid gland relieve the diseased heart of its burden in patients with chronic intractable heart disease without thyrotoxicosis?
Historically, total surgical ablation of the thyroid gland was proposed as a method to lower the basal metabolic rate and relieve cardiac burden in patients with intractable heart disease.
Friedman et al. (1934) studied this question.
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