%0 Journal Article %A S J Kirk %A H O O'Kane %A P Morton %T Coronary artery surgery and myxoedema. %D 1987 %R 10.1136/hrt.58.6.674 %J British Heart Journal %P 674-675 %V 58 %N 6 %X A patient with a preoperative diagnosis of myxoedema had triple vessel coronary artery bypass surgery. The perioperative and postoperative course was essentially uneventful. The most appropriate management of a patient with coronary artery disease who has concomitant myxoedema is first to improve myocardial blood flow by relieving coronary obstruction and then to treat the thyroid deficiency. %U https://heart.bmj.com/content/heartjnl/58/6/674.full.pdf