Tolerance to Oral Thyroid and Reaction to Intravenous Thyroxine in Subjects without Myxedema.
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چکیده
The failure of certain non-myxedematous subjects to respond to large doses of oral dried thyroid has been previously noted (1). The lack of responsiveness contrasts sharply with the sensitivity to dried thyroid invariably evinced by patients with true myxedema (1, 2). In this paper, the responses of various non-myxedematous subjects to thyroid medication are described. In certain of these individuals, the response to intravenous thyroxine was compared with that to oral thyroid substance.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Journal of clinical investigation
دوره 22 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1943