Thyroxin levels in blood of children with chronic decompensated tonsillitis before and after tonsillectomy
Iagoda, N.L.
Vestnik Otorinolaringologii 1997(1): 27-29
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-4668 PMID: 9092164 Document Number: 472722
Blood thyroxine levels were measure using radioimmunoassay in 82 children aged 3-14 with chronic decompensated tonsillitis (CDT) before tonsillectomy and 7 weeks, 2-3 months and 3-10 years after it. This hormone levels appeared higher in boys. In CDT with quinsy recurrences combination with metatonsillar complications T-4 existed in rather high concentrations. Seven days after tonsillectomy thyroxinemia lowered and 2-3 months later it returned to the baseline level. Long-term follow-up T-4 concentrations in the blood were lower than preoperative ones in senior children (boys, as a rule) and in combined forms of chronic tonsillitis decompensation.