PMID: 15244202Jul 13, 2004Paper

Liver function tests during antithyroid therapy in hyperthyroidism

Hepato-gastroenterology
Müfide Nuran Akçay, Güngör Akçay

Abstract

To investigate the liver function tests during antithyroid treatment in the patients with hyperthyroidism. Four hundred sixty five patients with hyperthyroidism (285 Graves' disease and 180 toxic nodular/multinodular goiter) and fifty healthy subjects were included in the study. The patients who had abnormal liver function tests were excluded from the study. Blood levels of thyrotropin (TSH), free thyroxine (FT4), alanine transaminase (ALT) and aspartate transaminase (AST) were detected at the beginning of the treatment (basal levels), and at the third and sixth months of the treatment. The patients were treated with propylthiouracil (PTU). Average of age was 40.1 +/- 5.8 years in the patient group and was 37.3 +/- 4.5 years in the control group. TSH, FT4, ALT and AST levels measured in the patient and control group are shown in Table 1. Basal levels of TSH were lower in the study group than in the control group (p<0.001), and basal levels of FT4 were higher in the study group than in the control group (p<0.001). Basal levels of ALT and AST, and the levels of TSH, FT4, ALT and AST measured at the third and sixth months were similar in both groups. We did not find abnormal liver function tests during the antithyroid treatment in...Continue Reading

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