Antonio José Lagoeiro Jorge et al. Wolney de Andrade Martins Eliza de Almeida Gripp Breno Macêdo de Almeida … Camila Cezário Rocha Paz Figueroa Cíntia Lobo Sabino
Introduction
Graves’ disease (GD) is an autoimmune disease and the most common cause of thyrotoxicosis,, with multisystem involvement, that mainly affects women between 40 and 60 years of age. It is the most prevalent cause of autoimmune hyperthyroidism in pregnancy,, and it can be distinguished from gestational thyrotoxicosis due to the presence of diffuse goiter and previous history of hyperthyroidism. Clinical hyperthyroidism occurs in 0.2% of pregnant women.
Heart failure (HF) is a rare manifestation of decompensated GD and it represents a diagnostic challenge due to low clinical suspicion of this etiology.
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