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ea0070ep503 | Thyroid | ECE2020

‘Thank you for giving me my wife back’ – the role of liothyronine (T3) in primary hypothyroidism

Grant Bonnie , Purkayastha Nirupam , Tanday Raj , Hawkins Anna , Enriquez Nancy , William Augustine , Casey Edel , Nikookam Khash

The British Thyroid Association executive committee advised in 2015 that there was insufficient evidence that levothyroxine(T4) and liothyronine(T3) combination therapy was superior to levothyroxine monotherapy, which remains the standard treatment of primary hypothyroidism. It was considered an experimental approach in symptomatic patients on T4 therapy with a TSH level within normal range.We present a 47-year-old lady who had been diagnosed with primar...