The relationship between changes in critically ill septic and non septic patients and circulating thyroxine levels

Description

A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, in part fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Master of Medicine
in Internal Medicine. 1993. / Normal thyroid physiology and pathophysiOlogy with reference to non-thyroidal illness is reviwed, including infections, specific disease states and drugs and their effects on thyroid function tests. A review of the literature reveals that following almost any infection the serum T4 and T3 decrease as a result of diminished secretion of TSH and thyroxine, accelerated T4 disappearance, inhibition of hormone binding to transport proteins and decreased peripheral T4 to T3 conversion. [Abbreviated Abstract. Open document to view full version] / AC2017

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1. Churchyard, Gavin, John (1993) The relationship between changes in critically ill septic and non septic patients and circulating thyroxine levels, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, <http://hdl.handle.net/10539/22566>
2. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/22566

Tags

Thyroid Function Tests

Thyroid hormones

Thyroxine

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/22566
Date	January 1993
Creators	Churchyard, Gavin, John
Source Sets	South African National ETD Portal
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Thesis
Format	Online resource (117 leaves), application/pdf