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Frederick Keen Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Ynysmaerdy, Llantrisant, UK

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Introduction Central hypothyroidism (CeH) is a heterogeneous disorder characterised by reduced thyroid hormone (TH) secretion due to pituitary and/or hypothalamic disorders. There is insufficient stimulation of TH secretion from an otherwise

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Joke Marlier Department of Endocrinology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

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Guy T’Sjoen Department of Endocrinology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
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Jean Kaufman Department of Endocrinology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
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Bruno Lapauw Department of Endocrinology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
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Introduction Hypothyroidism indicates the pathological condition of thyroid hormone (TH) deficiency and when untreated, it can lead to severe health effects. Hypothyroidism can be categorised as primary (PHT) or central hypothyroidism (CHT

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Luca Persani Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Division of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy

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Georg Brabant Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology Medical Clinic I – University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

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Mehul Dattani Genetics and Genomic Medicine Programme, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom

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Marco Bonomi Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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Ulla Feldt-Rasmussen Department of Medical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Eric Fliers Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Annette Gruters Department for Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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Dominique Maiter Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition, UCL Cliniques Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium

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Nadia Schoenmakers University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Hospital and National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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A.S. Paul van Trotsenburg Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Emma Children’s Hospital, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Introduction Central hypothyroidism (CeH) is a disorder characterized by defective thyroid hormone production due to insufficient stimulation by thyrotropin (TSH) of an otherwise normal thyroid gland. This condition is the consequence of

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Emilie Brûlé Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Xiang Zhou Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Ying Wang Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Evan R S Buddle Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Luisina Ongaro Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Mary Loka Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Anita Boelen Endocrine Laboratory, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Gastroenterology, Endocrinology & Metabolism Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Daniel J Bernard Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Introduction Congenital central hypothyroidism (CCH) may affect as many as one in 13,000 people ( 1 ). In CCH, thyroid hormone levels are low to low-normal without the expected increases in thyrotropin (TSH), implicating defects in the brain

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Anita Boelen Endocrine Laboratory, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Amsterdam UMC, location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Nitash Zwaveling-Soonawala Amsterdam Gastroenterology Endocrinology Metabolism, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Annemieke C Heijboer Endocrine Laboratory, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Amsterdam UMC, location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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A S Paul van Trotsenburg Amsterdam Gastroenterology Endocrinology Metabolism, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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in patients with mild central CH ( 24 ). Several patients with central hypothyroidism due to mutations in TBL1X were only diagnosed as teenagers or adults having (although not formally tested) normal mental and physical development suggesting

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David Shaki Pediatric Endocrinology Unit, Saban Pediatric Medical Center for Israel, Beer Sheva, Israel
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Marina Eskin-Schwartz Genetics Institute at Soroka University Medical Center and the Morris Kahn Laboratory of Human Genetics, National Center for Rare Diseases, at the Faculty of Health Sciences and National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

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Noam Hadar Genetics Institute at Soroka University Medical Center and the Morris Kahn Laboratory of Human Genetics, National Center for Rare Diseases, at the Faculty of Health Sciences and National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

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Emily Bosin Endocrinology Lab, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer Sheva, Israel

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Lior Carmon Pediatric Endocrinology Unit, Saban Pediatric Medical Center for Israel, Beer Sheva, Israel
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Samuel Refetoff Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics and the Committee on Genetics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

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Eli Hershkovitz Pediatric Endocrinology Unit, Saban Pediatric Medical Center for Israel, Beer Sheva, Israel
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Alon Haim Pediatric Endocrinology Unit, Saban Pediatric Medical Center for Israel, Beer Sheva, Israel
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subsequently cleaved to result in a mature protein of 118 amino acids ( 1 ). TSHB mutations cause congenital non-goitrous hypothyroidism 4 (OMIM#275100), clinically presenting as profound central hypothyroidism, through loss of function mechanism. In

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João Anselmo Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition, Hospital Divino Espírito Santo, Ponta Delgada, Portugal

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Carolina M. Chaves Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition, Hospital Divino Espírito Santo, Ponta Delgada, Portugal

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, the child was supplemented with L-T 4 to prevent neurodevelopmental constraints due to central hypothyroidism. Given the long-lasting effect of fetal hyperthyroidism in TSH suppression, we were unsure whether the abnormalities in the regulation of TSH

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Christian Trummer Division of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

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Hannes Reiher Department of Internal Medicine, Krankenhaus der Elisabethinen, Graz, Austria

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Verena Theiler-Schwetz Division of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

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Marlene Pandis Division of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

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Christian Gstettner Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

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Tilman Keck Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Krankenhaus der Elisabethinen, Graz, Austria

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Thomas R. Pieber Division of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

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Sigurd Lax Department of Pathology, General Hospital Graz Sued-West, Graz, Austria
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Johannes Haybaeck Department of Pathology, Medical Faculty, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
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Vinzenz Stepan Department of Internal Medicine, Krankenhaus der Elisabethinen, Graz, Austria

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Stefan Pilz Division of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

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showed central hypothyroidism with decreased TSH (0.01 µU/mL, normal 0.27–4.20), fT4 (12.1 pmol/L, normal 13.0–23.0), and fT3 (3.09 pmol/L, normal 3.1–6.8). Consequently, the patient received 100 µg of levothyroxine daily; octreotide was not continued

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Akshay Khatri Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Health, Manhasset, New York, USA

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Esti Charlap Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Health, Great Neck, New York, USA

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Angela Kim Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Health, Manhasset, New York, USA

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decreased hormone levels could be explained by the pathologic findings of follicular destruction. However, the low TSH level could be secondary to hypothalamus-pituitary dysfunction – this is reinforced by the findings of central hypothyroidism and central

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Arjun Rajendran Department of Endocrinology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Cochin, India

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Nisha Bhavani Department of Endocrinology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Cochin, India

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Vasantha Nair Department of Endocrinology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Cochin, India

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Praveen V. Pavithran Department of Endocrinology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Cochin, India

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V. Usha Menon Department of Endocrinology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Cochin, India

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Harish Kumar Department of Endocrinology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Cochin, India

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was treated according to the protocol. All except one patient in this series had primary hypothyroidism. Subject 6 had central hypothyroidism as part of hypopituitarism secondary to ex­cision of pituitary macroadenoma. He came with myxedema coma

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