Thyroid storm with rare cardiac presentations, 10 year-intensive care unit experience: Case series

Thyroid storm causes serious alterations in cardiac parameters. These include an increase in resting heart rate, myocardial contractility and a predisposition to arrhythmias. As the result, most patients with thyroid storm experienced cardiovascular manifestations. The most common arrhythmia is atrial fibrillation and supraventricular tachycardia, however, ventricular arrhythmia, pulmonary hypertension and right side heart failure have been rarely reported in the literatures. In this report, we have reviewed 7 cases of thyroid storm patients with rare cardiac manifestations.