Erschienen in:
29.02.2016 | Editorial
Treatment of hypothyroidism: all that glitters is gold?
verfasst von:
Anna Maria Formenti, Gherardo Mazziotti, Raffaele Giubbini, Andrea Giustina
Erschienen in:
Endocrine
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Ausgabe 3/2016
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Excerpt
Levothyroxine (L-T4) is recommended worldwide for replacement therapy of hypothyroidism due to its efficacy in resolving the symptoms, long-term experience of its benefits, long serum half-life, and low cost. Since the isolation of L-T4 by Kendall in 1914 [
1] and then the synthesis of T4 and its better absorbed sodium salt [
2], it has become the therapy of choice, also due to the demonstration that about 80 % of biologically active tri-iodiothyronine is derived from peripheral conversion of T4 [
3]. …