Factitiously Elevated Total Triiodothyronine in a Euthyroid Patient with Multiple Myeloma

Sporadic reports of factitious elevations of thyroid hormones related to laboratory interference from autoantibodies and multiple myeloma paraproteins have appeared in the literature. Such clinically confusing laboratory results can lead to erroneous diagnoses and inappropriate treatments. We report...

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Autores principales: Mandal, Kaushik, Ashorobi, Damilola, Lee, Alice, Liao, Huijuan, Kumar, Salini C., Rosenthal, David S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8421174/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34497729
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/8479193
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Sumario:Sporadic reports of factitious elevations of thyroid hormones related to laboratory interference from autoantibodies and multiple myeloma paraproteins have appeared in the literature. Such clinically confusing laboratory results can lead to erroneous diagnoses and inappropriate treatments. We report an additional case of a patient with multiple myeloma and an IgG paraproteinemia who had such a spurious elevation of total T3 complicating her levothyroxine management of hypothyroidism. In addition, we alert clinicians that differences in performance characteristics between various manufacturers' test platforms may also cause spurious reports.

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