Abstract：
:We report two patients who presented with non-specific symptoms of tiredness that prompted their clinician to order a thyroid function test. In both cases, free thyroxine (T4) was reported to be high, with a normal thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH). Repeated blood tests from the same laboratory using the same assay method yielded similar results. Due to discrepancies between the clinical and laboratory findings, we decided to repeat the blood tests at another laboratory using a different assay method. This revealed normal free T4 and TSH levels, suggesting that heterophile antibodies were interfering with the free T4 assay, leading to clinical confusion.
journal_name
Eur J Intern Medjournal_title
European journal of internal medicineauthors
Ghosh S,Howlett M,Boag D,Malik I,Collier Adoi
10.1016/j.ejim.2007.05.009subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2008-05-01 00:00:00pages
221-2issue
3eissn
0953-6205issn
1879-0828pii
S0953-6205(07)00244-0journal_volume
19pub_type
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