Thyroid function testing in pregnancy and thyroid disease: Trimester-specific reference intervals

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 8-11

  Soldin, Offie P ^a,b,c  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Free T4; FT4; Gestation; LC MS MS; Reference ranges; Thyroidstimulating hormone; Thyroxine T4; Triiodothyronine T3; TSH

Indexed keywords

LEVOTHYROXINE; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

DRUG INHIBITION; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; FEMALE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; REFERENCE VALUE; REVIEW;

FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTERS; REFERENCE VALUES; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 33745502326     PISSN: 01634356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ftd.0000194498.32398.7b     Document Type: Short Survey

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