Growth retardation and thyroxine-binding globulin deficiency.

Congenital hypothyroidism with hereditary, raised thyroxine binding globulin.

A boy with congenital hypothyroidism and hereditary raised thyroxine binding globulin is described. This hitherto unreported combination resulted in under treatment of the thyroid deficiency until serum thyroid stimulating hormone measurement became routinely available. Inadequate L-thyroxine replacement treatment between 2 and 7 years of age caused retarded bone maturation, poor growth velocit...

Radioelectrophoresis for determination of thyroid hormone binding abnormalities in human serum.

This paper describes a rapid and accurate method for determining binding abilities of thyroid hormones to their corresponding serum proteins: prealbumin, albumin and thyroxine binding globulin. A tube cell agarose gel electrophoresis is used with radioactive labelled triiodothyronine or thyroxine. The distribution curve shows characteristic peaks for prealbumin, albumin and thyroxine binding gl...

Primary thyroid failure with concomitant thyroxine binding globulin deficiency.

Familial thyroxine-binding globulin deficiency.

Genetically determined thyroxine-binding globulin deficiency is described in two families in the United Kingdom. All subjects in both pedigrees were euthyroid. Transmission was by sex-linkage; males showed low serum protein bound iodine and high thyroxine (T4) resin uptake due to complete absence of serum thryroxine-binding globulin; females were less severely affected. The distinctive biochemi...

Conventional and dual competitive binding analyses of thyroxine using the Thyopac-4 kit.

A simple method is described for the simultaneous determinations of thyroxine and the effective thyroxine ratio (ETR) using a single kit of Thyopac-4. Thyopac ETR values obtained were 1.00 +/- 0.03 for normal subjects; 1.22 +/- 0.11 for hyperthyroid; 0.87 +/- 0.04 for hypothyroid; and 1.02 +/- 0.05 for pregnant women. Cases with TBG deficiency and the nephrotic syndrome indicated normal values....