Reduced serum T3 level in a patient with nodular goiter and cardiac myxoma.
We report the unusual case of an 87-year-old woman with cardiac myxoma and adenomatous goiter. She exhibited slight elevations of serum interleukin-6 (IL-6), but levels of thyroid hormones such as T3, free T3 and free T4 were all abnormally low. Interleukin-6 may potentiate the alteration of thyroid metabolism.
Sumino
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Second Department of Internal Medicine, Gunma University School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan.
Kanda
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Kobayashi
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Sakamoto
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Sato
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Sakamaki
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Fukuda
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Ichikawa
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Nagai
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R
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006044:Goiter, Nodular / Q000097:blood* / Q000150:complications*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000097:blood* / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D015850:Interleukin-6 / Q000097:blood; D009232:Myxoma / Q000097:blood* / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D014284:Triiodothyronine / Q000097:blood*
D015850:Interleukin-6; D014284:Triiodothyronine