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Prospective Intervention of a Novel Levothyroxine Dosing Protocol based on Body Mass Index after Thyroidectomy

BACKGROUND: Weight-based postoperative levothyroxine (LT4) dosing often fails to appropriately dose overweight and underweight patients. We previously created an LT4-dosing algorithm based on Body Mass Index (BMI). We hypothesize that more patients will achieve euthyroidism at their postoperative vi...

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Publicado en:J Am Coll Surg
Main Authors: Elfenbein, Dawn M., Schaefer, Sarah, Shumway, Cynthia, Chen, Herbert, Sippel, Rebecca S., Schneider, David F.
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: 2015
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4698011/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26584573
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2015.10.005
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