“Generally, reverse triiodothyronine tests are not necessary since triiodothyronine should not be ordered in hospitalized or sick patients.”

This is a case report, titled Hypothyroidism-induced reversible dilated cardiomyopathy, by P Rastogi, A Dua, S Attri, and H Sharma, J Postgrad Med. 2018 Jul-Sep; 64(3): 177–179. doi: 10.4103/jpgm.JPGM_154_17, PMCID: PMC6066629PMID: 29992912 , https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6066629/. It reports on a patient with dilated cardiomyopathy caused by hypothyroidism, cured with T4. Abstract (paraphrased, for brevity)A young female presented with heart failure and was diagnosed as having DCM. Echocardiography revealed left ventricular global hypokinesia and severely depressed systolic function. The past history included hoarseness (a classic hypothyroid symptom), for two years and the Thyroid profile revealed a grossly elevated TSH (thyroid-stimulating hormone) value of 313…

This new (August, 2021), very well-written paper, entitled “Thyroid Hormones—An Underestimated Player in Dilated Cardiomyopathy?“,comes very close the truth of T3’s influence on heart health and function.The authors have managed to review all the important facts on the subject, up to and including a mention of reverse T3, without coming to the conclusion that full thyroid testing might disclose functional hypothyroidism and by so doing, permit the prescription of Triiodothyronine for cure of this almost universally fatal disease (many DCM subjects, even those treated by heart transplant, die). J Clin Med. 2021 Aug; 10(16): 3618. Published online 2021 Aug 16.…