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Clinical value of a sensitive immunoradiometric assay for TSH.
Allen KR, Scott RD, Hewitt JV, Watson D.
We have investigated a sensitive immunoradiometric assay for serum thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) in 45 thyrotoxic patients not on treatment, 464 euthyroid patients and 111 hypothyroid patients on replacement therapy. Forty-three thyrotoxic and seven euthyroid patients were found to have an undetectable TSH (less than 0.2 mIU/L). Previous work has shown a very clear separation of thyrotoxic and euthyroid patients using sensitive TSH assays. However, our extended study here has revealed that a significant number of euthyroid patients with undetectable TSH (1.5% in our study) are likely to be found if TSH becomes the initial test for thyroid function. Thirty of the hypothyroid patients on thyroxine were found to have undetectable TSH, but only one showed clinical signs of thyrotoxicosis. Most of the patients, although having raised serum free T4, had serum free T3 levels within the euthyroid range or just slightly elevated.
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