Clinical versus Biochemical Assessment in Thyroxine Replacement Therapy: A Retrospective Study

A retrospective audit of a thyroid clinic revealed that only 67% of clinical assessments of thyroid status in patients receiving thyroxine replacement therapy were correct. The identification of patients on excessive doses of thyroxine appears to be the most difficult by clinical assessment alone, o...

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Autores principales: Thomas, S. H. L., Sturgess, I., Wedderburn, A., Wylie, J., Croft, D. N.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal College of Physicians of London 1990
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5387522/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2258844
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description A retrospective audit of a thyroid clinic revealed that only 67% of clinical assessments of thyroid status in patients receiving thyroxine replacement therapy were correct. The identification of patients on excessive doses of thyroxine appears to be the most difficult by clinical assessment alone, only 10% of those patients with a suppressed TSH level being identified. This study emphasises the importance of thyroid function tests in the assessment of patients on thyroxine replacement.
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spelling pubmed-53875222019-01-22 Clinical versus Biochemical Assessment in Thyroxine Replacement Therapy: A Retrospective Study Thomas, S. H. L. Sturgess, I. Wedderburn, A. Wylie, J. Croft, D. N. J R Coll Physicians Lond Articles A retrospective audit of a thyroid clinic revealed that only 67% of clinical assessments of thyroid status in patients receiving thyroxine replacement therapy were correct. The identification of patients on excessive doses of thyroxine appears to be the most difficult by clinical assessment alone, only 10% of those patients with a suppressed TSH level being identified. This study emphasises the importance of thyroid function tests in the assessment of patients on thyroxine replacement. Royal College of Physicians of London 1990-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5387522/ /pubmed/2258844 Text en © Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London 1990 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits non-commercial use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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