CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF SERUM rT_3 MEASUREMENT IN HYPERTHYROID PATIENTS TREATED WITH ANTITHYROID DRUG
- VernacularTitle:以血清rT_3作为判断甲亢病情变化及预后指标的探讨
- Author:
Yan GAO
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:
Chinese Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism
1986;0(04):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Serum T3, T4, rT3 levels were measured in 124 patients with Graves' disease and in 100 normal subjects. The levels of serum T3, T4, rT3 and the ratios of T2/T4, rT3/T4, rT3/T3 were significantly higher in the hyperthyroid patients before treatment as compared with that in the normal subjects. Serum rT3 concentration of the patients returned down to the normal range lastly during antithyroid therapy. The incidence of relapse was higher in the patients with high serum rT3 level than that in those with normal serum rT, level while discontinuing methimazole therapy (66.7% vs 17.4%). The difference was significant (P
