Chronic intestinal Giardiasis with isolated levothyroxine malabsorption as reason for severe hypothyroidism - Implications for localization of thyroid hormone absorption in the gut

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 180-182

  Seppel, T ^a   Rose, F ^a   Schlaghecke, R ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Giardia lamblia; Hypothyroidism; Levothyroxin malabsorption

Indexed keywords

LEVOTHYROXINE; METRONIDAZOLE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EUTHYROIDISM; FEMALE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; INTESTINE INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; JEJUNUM BIOPSY; MALABSORPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0029983759     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1211442     Document Type: Article

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