Thyroid Storm with Heart Failure Treated with a Short-acting Beta-adrenoreceptor Blocker, Landiolol Hydrochloride

Intern Med. 2015;54(13):1633-7. doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine.54.3138. Epub 2015 Jul 1.

Abstract

Beta-adrenoreceptor blockers are essential in controlling the peripheral actions of thyroid hormones and a rapid heart rate in patients with thyroid storm, although they should be used with great caution when there is the potential for heart failure. A 67-year-old woman was diagnosed as having thyroid storm in addition to marked tachycardia with atrial fibrillation and heart failure associated with a reduced left ventricular function. The administration of an oral beta blocker, bisoprolol fumarate, induced hypotension and was not tolerable for the patient, whereas landiolol hydrochloride, a short-acting intravenous beta-adrenoreceptor blocker with high cardioselectivity and a short elimination half-life, was useful for controlling the patient's tachycardia and heart failure without causing hemodynamic deterioration.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adrenergic beta-Antagonists / therapeutic use*
  • Aged
  • Atrial Fibrillation / physiopathology
  • Electric Countershock
  • Female
  • Heart Failure / physiopathology
  • Heart Failure / prevention & control*
  • Heart Rate / drug effects*
  • Humans
  • Infusions, Intravenous
  • Morpholines / therapeutic use*
  • Tachycardia / etiology
  • Thyroid Crisis / complications
  • Thyroid Crisis / drug therapy*
  • Thyroid Crisis / physiopathology
  • Thyroidectomy* / methods
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Urea / analogs & derivatives*
  • Urea / therapeutic use

Substances

  • Adrenergic beta-Antagonists
  • Morpholines
  • landiolol
  • Urea