Sunday, August 16, 2009

What is protocols before thyroid function test in known thyroid pt on medicine?

Is there any need of stop medicine in patient taking external thyroxin [eg. eltroxin] before blood is drawn for a thyroxine function test.?

What should precautions be taken before sample collection for TFT?

please gives yours comments....
Posted by Dr. Pacific at 8:39 PM
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  1. UnknownSunday, August 16, 2009 10:58:00 PM

    For patient taking eltroxin, aim of doing TFT is to know whether patient is euthyroid or not with that treatment, so dont stop drugs,we are not doing TFT for diagnosis here.

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