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Freie Fettsäuren im Serum bei krisenhaften Erkrankungen: Spielen sie eine Rolle bei der Proteinbindung von Schilddrüsenhormonen?

Free fatty acids in serum in critical illness: Do they play a role in binding of thyroid hormones to proteines?

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As a contribution to the question if the elevated concentrations of free fatty acids in sera of critically ill patients described in literature play a role in the decrease of thyroid hormone levels in these patients, serum levels of the important free fatty acids were measured in 31 patients of our intensive care unit in the course of their disease using gas chromatography.

After admission to the ward, only palmitoleic acid was significantly increased compared with 174 control persons, arachidonic acid was not different from the controls, palmitic, stearic, linoleic and linolenic acid were significantly decreased. In the course of the disease, no relevant changes were observed. The 21 patients not surviving their disease showed significantly lowered levels of palmitic, stearic and linoleic acid before death compared with the surviving patients at the end of the observation period. The hypothetical role of single free fatty acids as inhibitors of the binding of thyroid hormones to their transport proteines must be questioned because of the results.

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Abbreviations

T3:

Trijodthyronin

T4:

Thyroxin

fT4:

freies Thyroxin

fT3:

freies Trijodthyronin

rT3:

reverses Trijodthyronin

TBG:

thyroxinbindendes Globulin

THBI:

Schilddrüsenhormon-Bindungsinhibitor

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  1. Abteilung für Endokrinologie, Zentrum der Inneren Medizin, Germany

    E. Schifferdecker, S. Hering, P. -H. Althoff & F. Schulz

  2. Abteilung für Experimentelle Anästhesiologie, Klinikum der J.W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    H. Förster, F. Asskali & K. Schöffling

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Schifferdecker, E., Hering, S., Förster, H. et al. Freie Fettsäuren im Serum bei krisenhaften Erkrankungen: Spielen sie eine Rolle bei der Proteinbindung von Schilddrüsenhormonen?. Klin Wochenschr 66, 308–313 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01727518

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