Serum thyrotropin and prolactin in the syndrome of generalized resistance to thyroid hormone: responses to thyrotropin-releasing hormone stimulation and short term triiodothyronine suppression

The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
D H SarneS Refetoff

Abstract

Serum TSH and PRL levels and their response to TRH were measured in 11 patients with generalized resistance to thyroid hormone (GRTH), 6 euthyroid subjects, and 6 patients with primary hypothyroidism. TSH and PRL levels and their response to TRH were also measured after the consecutive administration of 50, 100, and 200 micrograms T3 daily, each for a period of 3 days. Using a sensitive TSH assay, all GRTH patients had TSH values that were elevated or within the normal range. On the basis of a normal or elevated TSH level, GRTH patients were classified as GRTH-N1 TSH (5 patients) or GRTH-Hi TSH (6 patients), respectively. Only GRTH patients with previous thyroid ablative therapy had basal TSH values greater than 20 mU/L. TSH responses, in terms of percent increment above baseline, were appropriate for the basal TSH level in all subjects. No GRTH patient had an elevated basal PRL level. PRL responses to TRH were significantly increased only in the hypothyroid controls compared to values in all other groups. On 50 micrograms T3, 7 of 12 (58%) nonresistant (euthyroid and hypothyroid) and 1 of 11 (9%) resistant subjects had a greater than 75% suppression of the TSH response to TRH. On the same T3 dose, 2 of 12 (17%) nonresistant an...Continue Reading

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