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Author: search.filters.author.Churchyard, Gavin, JohnSubject: search.filters.subject.Thyroid Function Tests

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    The relationship between changes in critically ill septic and non septic patients and circulating thyroxine levels
    (1993) Churchyard, Gavin, John
    Normal thyroid physiology and pathophysiOlogy with reference to non-thyroidal illness is reviwed, including infections, specific disease states and drugs and their effects on thyroid function tests. A review of the literature reveals that following almost any infection the serum T4 and T3 decrease as a result of diminished secretion of TSH and thyroxine, accelerated T4 disappearance, inhibition of hormone binding to transport proteins and decreased peripheral T4 to T3 conversion. [Abbreviated Abstract. Open document to view full version]
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