Thyroid Function Testing: A Brief Update
Targets for Assessment of Thyroid Function
April 2009
Free T3 has the same advantages, more or less, as free T4 and very similar disadvantages. One of the major disadvantages here is that all current free T3 assays have serious shortcomings and generally are not recommended. They are too unreliable in medical clinical situations. The limitations are caused, by and large, the very large low concentrations of the analyte which is being measured. Free thyroxine concentrations are already only a few percent of the total thyroxin concentrations. Free T3 concentrations, in turn, are only a few percent of the total T3 concentrations, and the total T3 concentrations are never more then 20% of the total thyroxin concentration. So, we are talking about low picomolar concentrations, which causes a lot of analytical problems.
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- Introduction
- Thyroid Disease
- Regulation of Thyroid Hormone Secretion
- Targets for Assessment of Thyroid Function
- Targets for Assessment of Thyroid Function, cont.
- Targets for Assessment of Thyroid Function, cont.
- Targets for Assessment of Thyroid Function: Biological Considerations
- Targets for Assessment of Thyroid Function
- Balancing It All Up - What Test to Use When
- Initial Diagnosis
- Balancing It All Up - What Test to Use When
- Balancing It All Up - What Test to Use When, cont.
- Balancing It All Up - What Test to Use When, cont.
- Balancing It All Up - What Test to Use When, cont.
- Balancing It All Up - What Test to Use When, cont.
- Balancing It All Up - What Test to Use When
- Appendix - The Key Assays
- Appendix The Key Assays-TSH
- Appendix The Key Assays-FT4
- Questions?
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