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Article: T3 therapy not yet ready for psychiatric use.(Adult Psychiatry)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
- Article date:
- February 1, 2005
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VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Triiodothyronine therapy is most definitely not a treatment whose time has come, a panel of experts agreed at a satellite symposium held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Thyroid Association.
Despite more than 3 decades of psychiatric interest in using [T.sub.3] in the treatment of depression and more recent enthusiasm for [T.sub.3] in treating primary hypothyroidism and the euthyroid sick syndrome, none of these applications is supported by reasonable clinical data--and in the case of euthyroid sick syndrome, there is a distinct potential for harm, according to the panelists.
James V. Hennessey, M.D., observed ...