Affiliation:
1. Department of Medicine, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, U.K
Abstract
Abstract
An antiarrhythmic drug, amiodarone, contains 37% iodine by weight and is structurally similar to the thyroid hormones. The drug inhibits hepatic 5'-deiodinase, resulting in increases in serum thyroxin and "reverse" triiodothyronine, whereas the concentration of triiodothyronine in serum is decreased. There is a significant incidence of either hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism in patients who are being treated with the drug. This is largely the effect of iodine released from the drug during chronic therapy, but in susceptible individuals amiodarone may unmask autoimmune thyroid disease. Some effects of the drug suggest that it may interfere with the action of thyroid hormones at the cellular level, inducing a state of localized hypothyroidism.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Biochemistry (medical),Clinical Biochemistry
Cited by
42 articles.
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