Erschienen in:
01.08.2014 | Scientific Letter
Sweat Test in Patients with Congenital Primary Hypothyroidism
verfasst von:
Gülay Karagüzel, Fazil Orhan, Yusuf Gedik
Erschienen in:
Indian Journal of Pediatrics
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Ausgabe 8/2014
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Excerpt
To the Editor: The sweat test determines the amount of sodium or chloride in the sweat and is the primary screening test for the diagnosis of cystic fibrosis (CF) even despite the availability of molecular analysis [
1,
2]. There is limited data regarding hypothyroidism is one of the causes of elevation in sweat electrolytes [
3]. Therefore, we investigated the sweat sodium concentration in infants with congenital primary hypothyroidism (CH) in order to establish whether sweat sodium concentrations are increased in CH. …