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ea0037ep1009 | Thyroid (non-cancer) | ECE2015

Successful treatment of hypothyroidism with rectal thyroxine can be achieved with variable dose response: a case report

Durrani Muhammad Naeem , Islam Najmul , Ram Nanik , Malik sarwar

Introduction: Hypothyroidism is a common endocrine disorder worldwide. Its treatment is with oral thyroxine, but when this route cannot be utilised then intravenous thyroxine is an alternate but not available in some countries so rectal thyroxine administration can be used but clinical experience is lacking.Case report: This is a case of a 55-years-old Pakistani male known case of hypothyroidism since July 2007 and was maintaining normal TSH and FT4...