Two patients with amiodarone-induced thyrotoxicosis were treated successfully with
potassium perchlorate and carbimazole while treatment with amiodarone was continued …

Hyperthyroidism is a rare side effect of amiodarone treatment. Four patients with this
untoward effect are described One patient with mild hyperthyroidism before treatment with …

Cases of hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism associated with amiodarone therapy are
described, and the mechanisms, clinical appearance, and management of amiodarone …

• Amiodarone is a widely used antiarrhythmic drug, which contains 75 mg of iodide per 200
mg of active substance. Eight of our patients receiving long-term amiodarone therapy …

Of a population of 400 patients treated with amiodarone, 97 underwent thyroid function
evaluation. Of these, 20 patients proved to be thyrotoxic and 16 hypothyroid. In thyrotoxic …

Amiodarone-induced thyrotoxicosis: a difficult diagnostic and therapeutic challenge* Page 1
Clinical Endocrinology (2002) 56, 23–24 © 2002 Blackwell Science Ltd 23 Blackwell Science …

Amiodarone is an iodine-rich drug used in the treatment of resistant cardiac arrhythmias.
Amiodarone-induced thyrotoxicosis (AIT) is well recognized and is generally believed to be …

We report four cases of life-threatening amiodarone iodine-induced thyrotoxicosis. Two
patients died of a thyroid storm, and the other two patients developed severe rhyrocardiac …

Treatment of amiodarone-induced thyrotoxicosis (AIT) with thionamide, lithium or radioactive
iodine is ineffective. This particular form of hyperthyroidism is long-lasting because of the …

Amiodarone has been reported as an anti-anginal drug in 19h7 [11 and as an anti-
arrhythmic drug in 1969 [2]. Thyroid side-effects (hypothyroidism and thyrotoxicosis) were …