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| Predicate | Object |
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| rdf:type | |
| lifeskim:mentions | |
| pubmed:issue |
2-3
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| pubmed:dateCreated |
1983-9-23
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| pubmed:abstractText |
A 43 years old female was treated for 8 months with antithyroid drugs because of a difficult adjustable hyperthyroidism. In spite of this massive antithyroid therapy a threatening deterioration of the clinical picture occurred. The reason for it was the secret intermittent intake of up to 1200 micrograms lT4 daily motivated by private problems. The difficulties of a differential diagnosis between a thyrotoxicosis factitia and an endogenous hyperthyroidism is stressed. One should always consider a thyrotoxicosis factitia in the case of suggestion of a psychopathia and when thyroid hormone medication is used for suppressive thyroid hormone therapy or as a prophylaxis of goiter recurrence. In addition overweight, major personality disorders and resistance to antithyroid drugs are indicative for thyroid hormone abuse. Important indicators for the differentiation between a thyroid hormone abuse and an endogenous hyperthyroidism are a lack of technetium- or radioiodine-uptake in the thyroid and suppressed levels of thyroglobulin.
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| pubmed:language |
ger
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| pubmed:journal | |
| pubmed:citationSubset |
IM
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| pubmed:chemical | |
| pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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| pubmed:issn |
0303-8173
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| pubmed:author | |
| pubmed:issnType |
Print
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| pubmed:volume |
10
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| pubmed:owner |
NLM
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| pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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| pubmed:pagination |
79-81
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| pubmed:dateRevised |
2006-11-15
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| pubmed:meshHeading | |
| pubmed:year |
1983
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| pubmed:articleTitle |
[Factitious hyperthyroidism caused by L-thyroxin abuse. Case report].
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| pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article,
English Abstract,
Case Reports
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