Total thyroidectomy for medically refractory amiodarone-induced thyrotoxicosis.

We present a patient with medically refractory amiodarone-induced thyrotoxicosis after a 2-year history of amiodarone use, resulting in cardiac arrest and encephalopathy. The patient ultimately required total thyroidectomy for symptomatic control.
PMID: 18982079 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings)