Serum Free Thyroid Hormones are Decreased by Betamethasone Treatment in Graves' Disease

1988 ◽  
Vol 20 (01) ◽  
pp. 54-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Gamstedt ◽  
B. Kågedal ◽  
L. Tegler
Keyword(s):  
Thyroid Hormones ◽  
Graves Disease ◽  
Serum Free ◽  
Free Thyroid Hormones

scholarly journals Neonates Born to Mothers with Graves’ Disease: 15 Year Experience of a Pediatric Endocrinology Department

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 483
Author(s):  
Inês Romão Luz ◽  
João Rio Martins ◽  
Mónica Jerónimo ◽  
Joana Serra Caetano ◽  
Rita Cardoso ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thyroid Hormones ◽  
Cord Blood ◽  
Thyroid Function ◽  
Case Series ◽  
Function Evaluation ◽  
Graves Disease ◽  
Thyrotropin Receptor ◽  
Second Trimester ◽  
Pediatric Endocrinology ◽  
Free Thyroid Hormones

Introduction: Graves disease is characterized by the existence of autoantibodies directed to the thyrotropin receptor, which can have a stimulatory/inhibitory action, in women with the condition, their fetus or neonate. Our aim was to review the case series of these neonates in order to establish neonatal thyroid function predictors.Material and Methods: Retrospective cohort study of the database of the Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, including patients born to mothers with Graves’ disease, between 2002 and 2017. Clinical and biochemical data were collected from mothers and offspring.Results: Fifty newborns, from 46 women with a median of 3.5 years after diagnosis, were included. During all trimesters of pregnancy, more than half of women had positive autoantibodies directed to the thyrotropin receptor. Not every woman had a complete thyroid function evaluation every trimester. In 32 newborns, cord blood screening was done. During the neonatal period, there were three cases of hypothyroidism and two of hyperthyroidism. The mothers of these five newborns had higher levels of free thyroid hormones during the second trimester (p = 0.03). The level of antibodies directed to the thyrotropin receptor was significantly higher in the cord blood (p = 0.03) and in the first neonatal test (p = 0.03) of these dysthyroid newborns.Discussion: Our results reinforce the need for every pregnant woman with Graves’ disease to be subject to thyroid function and autoantibodies evaluation during every trimester, as well as the importance of evaluating these antibodies in cord blood.Conclusion: High levels of free thyroid hormones during the second trimester of pregnancy and antibodies directed to the thyrotropin receptor value in cord blood are predictors of dysthyroidism in neonates born from women with Grave’s disease.

Serum free thyroid hormones in subclinical hypothyroidism

1986 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 315-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Pacchiarotti ◽  
Enio Martino ◽  
L. Bartalena ◽  
F. Aghini-Lombardi ◽  
L. Grasso ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thyroid Hormones ◽  
Subclinical Hypothyroidism ◽  
Serum Free ◽  
Free Thyroid Hormones

Serum free thyroid hormones in different degrees of hypothyroidism and in euthyroid autoimmune thyroiditis

1987 ◽  
Vol 114 (4) ◽  
pp. 559-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Ferrari ◽  
A. Paracchi ◽  
E. Parisio ◽  
F. Codecasa ◽  
M. Mucci ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thyroid Hormones ◽  
Thyroid Function ◽  
Autoimmune Thyroiditis ◽  
Subclinical Hypothyroidism ◽  
Healthy Subjects ◽  
Direct Determination ◽  
Serum Free ◽  
Free Thyroid Hormones ◽  
Hypothyroid Patients

Abstract. Serum total and free T4 and T3, thyroxinebinding globulin (TBG) and TSH, basal and 20, 30 and 60 min after TRH (200 μg, iv), were evaluated in 125 hypothyroid patients (38 with severe, 23 with mild, and 64 with subclinical hypothyroidism), in 35 euthyroid subjects with autoimmune thyroiditis, and in 51 healthy controls. T4/TBG and T3/TBG ratios were also calculated. A significant decrease in all indices of thyroid function except for T3 occurred simultaneously with a significant increase in basal and TRH-stimulated TSH levels from healthy subjects to subclinical hypothyroids, from subclinical to mild and from mild to severe hypothyroids; euthyroid patients with autoimmune thyroiditis did not differ from healthy subjects. All severe hypothyroid patients had low T4 as well as free T4 (FT4), free T3 (FT3), T4/TBG and T3/TBG ratios, but among mild and subclinical hypothyroids direct determination of FT4 and FT3 proved to be a better index of thyroid function than determination of T4 and T3 even after correction for TBG levels. FT4 was the most commonly abnormal index (19 of 23 subjects with mild and 14 of 64 with subclinical disease). Regression analysis showed that FT4, T4/TBG ratio, T4, and FT3 had a significant inverse correlation with TSH in hypothyroid patients. Discriminant analysis showed that among the thyroid parameters, FT4 is the variable which discriminates best between control subjects and the 3 groups of hypothyroid patients. These data extend previous reports and in a large series of patients confirm the biological meaning and the clinical value of direct measurement of serum free thyroid hormones in hypothyroidism. Nevertheless, the finding that both FT4 and FT3 are in the normal range in some patients with mild and in most with subclinical hypothyroidism indicates that increased TSH secretion remains the most sensitive index of thyroid failure.

Serum thyrotropin by ultrasensitive immunoradiometric assay and serum free thyroid hormones in pregnancy

1986 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Pacchiarotti ◽  
E. Martino ◽  
L. Bartalena ◽  
L. Buratti ◽  
C. Mammoli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thyroid Hormones ◽  
Immunoradiometric Assay ◽  
Serum Free ◽  
Free Thyroid Hormones ◽  
In Pregnancy

The influence of free fatty acids on the free fraction of thyroid hormones in serum as estimated by ultrafiltration

1987 ◽  
Vol 116 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Bregengåard ◽  
C. Kirkegaard ◽  
J. Faber ◽  
S. Poulsen ◽  
K. Siersbæk-Nielsen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oleic Acid ◽  
Thyroid Hormones ◽  
Healthy Subjects ◽  
Binding Proteins ◽  
Free Fraction ◽  
Nonthyroidal Illness ◽  
Serum Free ◽  
Free Thyroid Hormones ◽  
Serum Pool ◽  
Somatic Illness

Abstract. Thyroid hormones are displaced from their binding proteins in serum during nonthyroidal somatic illness, and FFA have been claimed to contribute. It seems mandatory to evaluate this effect using techniques for the measurements of serum free thyroid hormones in which serum remains undiluted. We measured the effect of 7 common human FFA on the free fraction of T4, T3 and rT3 in serum from healthy subjects using an ultrafiltration technique by which serum is diluted only minimally. In addition we measured the effect of oleic acid on the free fractions of the iodothyronines in pooled serum from healthy subjects and in pooled serum from patients with nonthyroidal illness. All FFA tested were able to displace both T4, T3 and rT3, but to a varying degree, arachidonic and linoleic acid being the most potent ones. A 20% increase in the free fractions of T4, T3 and rT3, respectively, was obtained by adding between 1.7–3.3 mmol/l, 1.3–4.6 mmol/l and 1.0–2.4 mmol/l of the different FFA. A serum pool obtained from patients with nonthyroidal somatic illness was more sensitive to oleic acid than a serum pool obtained from healthy subjects, since 2–3 times less oleic acid was necessary to induce a 20% increase in the free fractions of thyroid hormones. It is concluded that FFA are able to displace both T4, T3 and rT3 from their serum binding proteins in healthy subjects as well as in patients with nonthyroidal illness. However, serum from patients with nonthyroidal illness was more sensitive to the displacing activity of oleic acid than serum from healthy subjects. This was possibly due to reduced affinity of the serum binding proteins to thyroid hormones, and it could be argued that a factor different from FFA seemed responsible.

Serum free thyroid hormones in T3-toxicosis: a study of 35 patients

1983 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Ferrari ◽  
M. Romussi ◽  
P. Rampini ◽  
R. Benco ◽  
M. Boghen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thyroid Hormones ◽  
Serum Free ◽  
Free Thyroid Hormones

Transient Prealbumin- Associated Hyperthyroxinemia in TSH-Producing Pituitary Adenoma

1990 ◽  
Vol 29 (01) ◽  
pp. 40-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Langsteger ◽  
P. Költringer ◽  
P. Wakonig ◽  
B. Eber ◽  
M. Mokry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Computed Tomography ◽  
Case Report ◽  
Pituitary Adenoma ◽  
Thyroid Hormones ◽  
Protein Binding ◽  
Alpha Subunit ◽  
Normal Range ◽  
Thyroxine Binding Globulin ◽  
Free Thyroid Hormones ◽  
Transmission Computed Tomography

This case report describes a 38-year-old male who was hospitalized for further clarification of clinically mild hyperthyroidism. His increased total hormone levels, the elevated free thyroid hormones and the elevated basal TSH with blunted response to TRH strongly suggested a pituitary adenoma with inappropriate TSH incretion. Transmission computed tomography showed an intrasellar expansion, 16 mm in diameter. The neoplastic TSH production was confirmed by an elevated alpha-subunit and a raised molar alpha-sub/ATSH ratio. However, T4 distribution on prealbumin (PA, TTR), albumin (A) and thyroxine binding globulin (TBG) showed a clearly increased binding to PA (39%), indicating additional prealbumin-associated hyperthyroxinemia. The absolute values of PA, A and TBG were within the normal range. After removal of the TSH-producing adenoma, basal TSH, the free thyroid hormones and T4 binding to prealbumin returned to normal. Therefore, the prealbumin-associated hyperthyroxinemia had to be interpreted as a transitory phenomenon related to secondary hyperthyroidism (T4 shift from thyroxine binding globulin to prealbumin) rather than a genetically conditioned anomaly of protein binding.

Diagnostic value of assessment of Serum Cortisol, Hepcidin and Thyroid Hormone Levels in Neonates with Late Onset Sepsis

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adel Hagag ◽  
Mohamed S Elfarargy ◽  
Reham Lyonis ◽  
Ghada M Al-Ashmawy
Keyword(s):  
Thyroid Hormones ◽  
Antibiotic Therapy ◽  
Neonatal Sepsis ◽  
Late Onset ◽  
Serum Cortisol ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Serum Free ◽  
Group I ◽  
Late Onset Sepsis ◽  
Serum Hepcidin

Background: Neonatal sepsis is a clinical syndrome characterized by symptoms and signs of infection in the first twenty eight days of life. Serum thyroid, cortisol and hepcidin are affected by neonatal sepsis. Aim of the work: The aim of this study was to assess the predictive value of serum thyroid hormones including free triiodothyronine (free TT3) and free tetraiodothyronine (free TT4), serum cortisol and hepcidin levels through comparison of their concentrations between normal neonates and neonates with high probable late onset sepsis. Patients and Methods: This case control study was carried out on 40 neonates with suspected high probable late onset neonatal sepsis based on clinical and laboratory finding who were admitted to NICU of Pediatric Department, Tanta University, Egypt in the period from April 2017 to May 2019 (group I) and 40 healthy neonates matched in age and sex as a control group (group II). For patients and controls; blood culture, highly sensitive C‑reactive protein (H-s CRP), serum hepcidin, serum cortisol and thyroid hormones levels including free TT3 and free TT4 were assessed. Results: There were no significant differences between studied groups as regard weight, gestational age, sex and mode of delivery. H-s CRP, serum cortisol and hepcidin were significantly higher in group I than group II while serum free TT3 and free TT4 were significantly lower in group I compared with controls. There was significantly lower H-s CRP, serum hepcidin and cortisol and significantly higher serum free TT3 and free TT4 in group I after antibiotic therapy compared to the same group before treatment while there were no significant differences between group I after antibiotic therapy and control group as regard the same parameters. There were significant positive correlation between H-s CRP and serum hepcidin and cortisol in group I while there was significant negative correlation between H-s CRP and free TT3 and free TT4. ROC curve of specificity and sensitivity of H-s CRP, serum hepcidin, cortisol, free TT3 and free TT4 in prediction of neonatal sepsis shows that serum hepcidin had the highest sensitivity and specificity with 95% and 90% respectively followed by serum cortisol, H-s CRP, free TT3 and lastly free TT4. Conclusion and recommendations: Neonates with high probable sepsis had significantly higher serum cortisol and hepcidin and significantly lower free TT3 and free TT4 compared with healthy neonates. These findings may arouse our attention about the use of these markers in diagnosis of in neonatal sepsis which can lead to early treatment and subsequently better prognosis.

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