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Clinical Relevance After Sodium Iodide I 131 Therapy

Norman G. Soler, MD; Willard Kennedy, MD; Jacobo Wortsman, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1979;139(1):36-38.

Abstract
Ten of 25 thyrotoxic patients treated with sodium iodide I 131 had thyroid function test results that indicated a high triiodothyronine (T₃) level, with normal thyroxine (T₄) and thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels, within 15 months of treatment. This pattern was usually transitional and lasted a variable time, eventually leading to euthyroidism, hyperthyroidism, or hypothyroidism. It is concluded that an isolated elevation of T₃ levels after radioactive iodine therapy can be associated with any clinical pattern of thyroid function and has no clear prognostic value. No specific treatment is needed for this abnormality.

(Arch Intern Med 139:36-38, 1979)

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Medicine, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Ill.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication June 20, 1978.

Reprint requests to the Department of Medicine, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, PO Box 3926, Springfield, IL 62708 (Dr Soler).

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