Once you’ve started a patient on T4 monotherapy, how do you monitor the patient, with a focus on (a) laboratory parameters of thyroid function and (b) judging whether or not you’ve achieved an acceptable or, even, optimal, clinical response to initial treatment?
Once you’ve started a patient on T4 monotherapy, how do you monitor the patient, with a focus on (a) laboratory parameters of thyroid function and (b) judging whether or not you’ve achieved an acceptable or, even, optimal, clinical response to initial treatment?
Professor of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health SciencesDirector, Endocrinology Division, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Walter Reed National Military Medical CenterEndocrinology, Diabetes & MetabolismBethesda, MD