A Study on Anti-T<SUB>3</SUB> and Anti-T<SUB>4</SUB> Autoantibodies Found in Two Sisters with Juvenile Hypothyroidism due to Hashimoto's Thyroiditis
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Autoimmune hepatitis and hypothyroidism associated with anti-thyroid hormone autoantibodies.
A 40-year-old hypothyroid female who had been treated with synthetic thyroxine was admitted to our hospital in October 1988 due to abnormal liver function tests. She had low serum free triiodothyronine (T3; 2.3 pg/ml) and high serum thyrotropin (TSH; 20.8 microU/ml) concentrations. On the other hand, the serum free thyroxine (FT4) level was inappropriately high, being 2.46 ng/dl. Immune precipi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Folia Endocrinologica Japonica
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0029-0661
DOI: 10.1507/endocrine1927.59.7_973