Serum interleukin-6 in amiodarone-induced thyrotoxicosis

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 423-427

  Bartalena, Luigi ^a   Grasso, Lucia ^a   Brogioni, Sandra ^a   Aghini Lombardi, Fabrizio ^a   Braverman, Lewis E ^b   Martino, Enio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; CYTOKINE; GLUCOCORTICOID; INTERLEUKIN 6; LIOTHYRONINE; PREDNISONE; THIAMAZOLE; THIONAMIDE; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROXINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID THERAPY; TACHYCARDIA; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROIDITIS; THYROTOXICOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMIODARONE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GOITER; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INTERLEUKIN-6; IODINE; MIDDLE AGED; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES; THYROTOXICOSIS;

EID: 0028047246     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jcem.78.2.8106631     Document Type: Article

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