The thyroid reserve in children with chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis revealed by the thyrotropin-releasing hormone and thyroid-stimulating hormone tests.
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Serum thyroid hormone and TSH concentrations were measured before and after the administration of TRH (10 micrograms/kg body weight) and bovine TSH (10 IU) in 14 children with chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis. The TRH test showed that the responsiveness of TSH was positively correlated with the basal TSH (P less than 0.001) and inversely with the increase in serum thyroid hormones, for delta T3 (P less than 0.05) and for delta T4 (P less than 0.001). Overall, the patients had significantly lower mean values for basal T4, but not for T3. The TSH test revealed that the delta T3 was positively correlated with delta T4 (P less than 0.05). delta T3 after TSH administration was positively correlated with it after TRH (P less than 0.05). The patients were divided into three groups on the basis of their peak TSH values after TRH administration. In Group 1 (peak value below 40 microU/ml; N = 5); T3 increased significantly after TRH and TSH administrations (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.025, respectively). In addition, delta T4 was significant after TSH administration. In Group 2 (peak TSH above 40 and less than 100 microU/ml; N = 6); only delta T3 after TRH was significant (P less than 0.05). In Group 3 (peak TSH above 100 microU/ml; N = 3); the response of thyroid hormones was blunted. Thus, the thyroid hormone responses to endogenous TSH coincided with that to exogenous TSH, and the exaggerated TSH response to TRH indicates decreased thyroid reserve.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Endocrinologia japonica
دوره 31 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1984