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Original Article

Effect of anticonvulsant and antidepressant drugs on iodothyronines in serum

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Pages 767-774 | Received 02 Jan 1980, Accepted 19 Apr 1980, Published online: 08 Jul 2009
 

Abstract

Serum iodothyronine concentrations were measured in patients on long-term therapy with one or two anticonvulsant drugs. Diphenylhydantoin (DPH) and carbamazepine (CBZ) reduced the serum levels of thyroxine (T4), free T4 index, reverse triiodothyronine (rT3) and 3,3′-diiodothyronine (3,3′-T2), whereas the depressant effect on the serum levels of triiodothyronine (T3) and free T3 index was small but statistically significant. In patients administered DPH and phenol-barbital (PB) or CBZ and primidone (PD) the serum iodothyronine levels were also depressed, except for normal T3 and free T3 index. Patients receiving only PB or PD had normal serum levels of total and free thyroid hormones, but decreased concentrations of rT3 and 3,3′-T2. Only supratherapeutic concentrations of DPH and CBZ added in vitro to control sera significantly reduced the number of Tq and T3--binding sites, as reflected in increased T4 and TO uptake test results. This indicates that the DPH and CBZ-induced decrease in thyroid hormone concentrations in vivo is not due to a displacement of thyroid hormones from their binding sites on serum proteins. The antidepressant drugs amitriptyline and mianserin had no effect on the thyroid hormone levels in serum.

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