Thyroid Hormones in the Human Pregnancy
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
- Vol. 64 (7) , 557-559
- https://doi.org/10.3109/00016348509156362
Abstract
Radio-immunologic T3, T4, FT3, FT4, rT3, TBG and 17.beta.-estradiol were measured in women in the 2nd and 3rd trimester of pregnancy, during labor, and during the first 14 days of the puerperium. A group of women suffering with gestosis EPH were also investigated. Our data suggest that in women suffering with gestosis EPH and during labor in normal pregnancy there is a T3-selective defect (low T3 syndrome) in which the conversion route of T4 into T3 is inhibited while the conversion route of T4 into rT3 remains fully operative, resulting in low plasma levels of T3 and FT3 and normal levels of T4, normal or high levels of FT4 and high levels of reverse T3.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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