Article
Thyroid hormone resistance.
Annual review of medicine - 1 Jan 1992
Weiss R E, Refetoff S
Abstract excerpt
Generalized resistance to thyroid hormone (GRTH) encompasses a heterogeneous group of conditions characterized by reduced responses of target tissues to thyroid hormone due to defects at the site of hormone action. In the majority of patients, GRTH is inherited as a dominant trait associated with...
Topics
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Humans
- Mutation
- Phenotype
- Pseudohypoparathyroidism
- Receptors, Thyroid Hormone
- Syndrome
- Thyroid Function Tests
- Thyroid Hormones