63 year old female presented to GP with diarrhoea and weight loss,ft4 17.8
pmol/l, TSH <0.02 m|U/L, T3 3.2 nmol/L. Three weeks later, diarrhoea has
since cleared and patient is putting weight back on, ft4 20.0 pmol/l, TSH
<0.02 m|U/L, T3 3.9 nmol/L. On file was a set of results from 1997
ft4 19.3 pmol/l, TSH <0.02 m|U/L, T3 3.0 nmol/L. GP says patient is not on
HRT, not the type to take herbal remedies etc. any ideas? I am trying to
locate a laboratory doing fT3, please
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Dr. Helen Grimes, Dept. of Clinical Biochemistry, UCH, Galway, Ireland
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