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Duration of lithium-induced hypothyroidism

Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 20:55:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ivan Goldberg <psydoc@psycom.net>
Subject: Duration of lithium-induced hypothyroidism

Lithium-induced hypothyroidism may disappear when the lithium is withdrawn. This is especially true when the total time on lithium was just a few weeks or months.

From: Donald Franklin Klein <dfk2@columbia.edu>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 19:52:53 -0400
Subject: Duration of lithium-induced hypothyroidism

My impression is that Li precipitated hypothyroidism reveals a thyroid abnormality our tests are too insensitive to detect. I treat even apparently remitted cases as hypothyroid with I think good results.

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