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| Autor: | James C.G. Doery, Julie D. Newman, Philip B. Bergman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
| Předmět: |
endocrine system
medicine.medical_specialty endocrine system diseases Heterophile business.industry Biochemistry (medical) Clinical Biochemistry nutritional and metabolic diseases Macroprolactin stomatognathic diseases Endocrinology Internal medicine medicine Euthyroid business hormones hormone substitutes and hormone antagonists Hormone |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Chemistry. 52:1969-1970 |
| ISSN: | 1530-8561 0009-9147 |
| DOI: | 10.1373/clinchem.2006.073122 |
| Popis: | Falsely increased thyrotropin (TSH) results caused by heterophile antibodies have been well documented in the literature. Although demonstration of macro forms of hormones (especially macroprolactin) is well known, there have been very few reports in the literature of factitious TSH increases caused by macro TSH in euthyroid patients. Halsall and colleagues, in their letter above, are to be commended for their elegant use of Sephacryl S-300 chromatography to analyze macro TSH in the serum of a mother and her neonate. Unfortunately, it is unclear whether the maternally transmitted interfering substance that we detected in … |
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