Povidone iodine-induced overt hypothyroidism in a patient with prolonged habitual gargling: Urinary excretion of iodine after gargling in normal subjects

Internal Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 391-395

  Sato, Kanji ^a   Ohmori, Teppei ^a   Shiratori, Keiko ^a   Yamazaki, Kazuko ^b   Yamada, Emiko ^b   Kimura, Hironari ^a   Takano, Kazue ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kanaji Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hypothyroidism; Iodine induced hypothyroidism; Povidone iodine; Urinary excretion of iodine

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AZULEN SULFONIC ACID; AZULENE DERIVATIVE; CHLORIDE; CREATINE KINASE; FUROSEMIDE; HACHIAZULE; HEMOGLOBIN; ISODIN GARGLE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LIOTHYRONINE; NAFTOPIDIL; OXATOMIDE; OXAZEPAM; POVIDONE IODINE; SODIUM; SPIRONOLACTONE; TERBINAFINE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CHLORIDE BLOOD LEVEL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONSTIPATION; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EUTHYROIDISM; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; GARGLE; GOITER; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMATOCRIT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IRRITABLE COLON; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MALAISE; MALE; MEAL; MITRAL VALVE COMMISSUROTOMY; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MYXEDEMA; PHARYNX DISEASE; POLLAKISURIA; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THYROID NODULE; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; TINEA PEDIS; URINARY EXCRETION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IODINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTHWASHES; POVIDONE-IODINE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 34247120659     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.46.1899     Document Type: Article

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