Fetal loss associated with excess thyroid hormone exposure

JAMA

Volumn 292, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 691-695

  Anselmo, João ^a   Cao, Dingcai ^b   Karrison, Theodore ^b   Weiss, Roy E ^c   Refetoff, Samuel ^b,c  

^a HOSPITAL DO DIVINO ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR BETA; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; THYROID HORMONE;

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS WASTAGE; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN SCREENING; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID HORMONE RESISTANCE; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; ADULT; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; BLOOD; GENETICS; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEDIGREE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROTO ONCOGENE; THYROTOXICOSIS;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; AZORES; BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; GENES, ERBA; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PEDIGREE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID HORMONE RESISTANCE SYNDROME; THYROID HORMONES; THYROTOXICOSIS; THYROTROPIN;

EID: 3843104749     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.292.6.691     Document Type: Article

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