Proportion of type 1 and type 2 amiodarone-induced thyrotoxicosis has changed over a 27-year period in Italy

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 533-537

  Bogazzi, Fausto ^a   Bartalena, Luigi ^b   Dell'Unto, Enrica ^a   Tomisti, Luca ^a   Rossi, Giuseppe ^c   Pepe, Pasquale ^c   Tanda, Maria Laura ^b   Grasso, Lucia ^a   Macchia, Enrico ^a   Aghini Lombardi, Fabrizio ^a   Pinchera, Aldo ^a   Martino, Enio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; LIOTHYRONINE; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; THYROXINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; ITALY; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROTOXICOSIS; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; AMIODARONE; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID GLAND; THYROTOXICOSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 34548690570     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2007.02920.x     Document Type: Article

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