Endocrine Abstracts

Context: Up to 15% of people with hypothyroidism remain symptomatic despite treatment with levothyroxine. A proportion of these utilise combination thyroid hormone replacement, T3 monotherapy and desiccated thyroid extract (DTE). We sought to explore thyroid hormone profiles in these patients.Methods: We performed hourly blood tests (8.30am-4.30pm) to assess TSH, T3 and T4 levels in 49 individuals (n =14 combination thyroid hormone replacement, ...