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  2. Postpartum thyroiditis - Wikipedia

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    Women with symptoms or a very high TSH level, or both, are usually prescribed a course of levothyroxine. [3] Asymptomatic women with slightly elevated TSH levels who are planning subsequent pregnancies, should consider a course of treatment until completion of the family to avoid possible developmental complications in future children. [3]

  3. Euthyroid sick syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Affected patients may have normal, low, or slightly elevated TSH depending on the spectrum and phase of illness. Total T4 and T3 levels may be altered by binding protein abnormalities, and medications. Reverse T3 levels are generally increased, while FT3 is decreased. FT4 levels may have a transient increase, before becoming subnormal during ...

  4. Thyroid disease - Wikipedia

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    TSH levels are determined by a classic negative feedback system in which high levels of T3 and T4 suppress the production of TSH, and low levels of T3 and T4 increase the production of TSH. TSH levels are thus often used by doctors as a screening test, where the first approach is to determine whether TSH is elevated, suppressed, or normal. [25 ...

  5. Hypothyroidism - Wikipedia

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    Subclinical hypothyroidism, a milder form of hypothyroidism characterized by normal thyroxine levels and an elevated TSH level, is thought to occur in 4.3–8.5% of people in the United States. [8] Subclinical hypothyroidism has been associated with an increased risk of atrial fibrillation (AF) and is the most frequent thyroid abnormality in ...

  6. Hyperthyroidism - Wikipedia

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    The diagnosis of hyperthyroidism is confirmed by blood tests that show a decreased thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) level and elevated T 4 and T 3 levels. TSH is a hormone made by the pituitary gland in the brain that tells the thyroid gland how much hormone to make. When there is too much thyroid hormone, the TSH will be low.

  7. Hashimoto's thyroiditis - Wikipedia

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    The target level for TSH is the subject of debate, with factors like age, sex, individual needs and special circumstances such as pregnancy being considered. [79] Recent studies suggest that adjusting therapy based on thyroid hormone levels (T 4 and/or T 3 ) may be important.

  8. Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis - Wikipedia

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    These are normal in the other forms, and in thyrotoxicosis the levels of thyroxine and triiodothyronine are elevated, with resultant suppression of TSH production by the pituitary gland. [1] [6] Various other investigations are usually performed to separate the different causes of hyperthyroidism. [6]

  9. Thyroid hormone resistance - Wikipedia

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    Thyroid hormone resistance (also resistance to thyroid hormone (RTH), and sometimes Refetoff syndrome) describes a rare syndrome in which the thyroid hormone levels are elevated but the thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) level is not suppressed, or not completely suppressed as would be expected.