The free hormone methods used by most clinical laboratories (indexes and immunoassays) do not employ physical separation of bound from free hormone and do not measure free hormone concentrations ...
The hypothalamic–pituitary–thyroid axis plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis, diagnosis, risk stratification, effectiveness of radioiodine therapy, and treatment response evaluation in epithelial ...
Thyroid diseases affect up to 5% of all pregnancies. Adverse pregnancy and neonatal outcomes are increased by maternal thyroid disease and adequate treatment is thought to reduce these risks ...