Initial evaluation of thyroid dysfunction - Are simultaneous TSH and fT4 tests necessary?

OBJECTIVE: Guidelines for thyroid function evaluation recommend testing TSH first, then assessing fT4 only if TSH is out of the reference range (two-step), but many clinicians initially request both TSH and fT4 (one-step). Given limitations of previous studies, we aimed to compare the two-step with...

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Autores principales: Schneider, Claudio, Feller, Martin, Bauer, Douglas C., Collet, Tinh-Hai, da Costa, Bruno R., Auer, Reto, Peeters, Robin P., Brown, Suzanne J., Bremner, Alexandra P., O’Leary, Peter C., Feddema, Peter, Leedman, Peter J., Aujesky, Drahomir, Walsh, John P., Rodondi, Nicolas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5927436/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29709030
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0196631

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5927436/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29709030
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0196631

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