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Chiung-Hui Peng et al., PMID 38436957
There is literature showing small changes in both free T4 and TSH (despite steady state) in the first few hours after ingestion of L-T4. In occasional...
Patient is a 41F and overall good surgical risk candidate.
With the time intervals recommended after taking each medicine, I am wondering how patients should be counseled.
Patient does not have hypercalcemia.
Conflicting data exists on whether Graves' disease would increase the aggressiveness of the concomitant thyroid cancer vs having no effect/correlation...
Patient had intolerance to methimazole and then developed agranulocytosis with PTU. FT4 is 2.9 (upper normal range is 1.7). I have started the patient...
What dose of RAI would you consider giving if recommended?
Female is in her later 40s with surgical oophorectomy taking Sertraline 50 mg daily and prn Trazodone and Lamotrigine. Has some weight loss and fatigu...
Elderly male with primary hypothyroidism, HTN, and progressive worsening cognition over several months. PCP has been increasing LT4 dose as outpatient...
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BMC medicine, 2019-07-10
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The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology, 2022 Mar 14
The New England journal of medicine, 1980-04-17
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