BSPED2017 Poster Presentations Pituitary and growth (24 abstracts)
Can the TSH index be used as a predictor of central hypothyroidism in children?
Elena Monti 1 , Kevin Stroek 2 , Grazia Morandi 3 , Nicola Improda 4 , Elena Rapti 5 , Maria Celeste Mattone 6 & Mehul Dattani 1,
1Great Ormond Street Hospital Paediatric Endocrinology, London, UK; 2Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands; 3Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata di Verona, Dipartimento di Pediatria, Verona, Italy; 4Federico II University, Department of Medical Traslational Sciences, Napoli, Italy; 5AHEPA Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Thessaloniki, Greece; 6Hospital de Pediatría Garrahan, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 7UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, Section of Genetics and Epigenetics in Health and Disease, London, UK; 8UCL Hospitals, Adolescent Endocrinology, London, UK.
Introduction: Central hypothyroidism (CeH) is diagnosed when low thyrotropin (TSH) is associated with a free thyroxine (fT4) below the normal range. Jostel proposed a ’fT4-adjusted TSH’ (TSH index: TSHI = log TSH +0.1345 · fT4.), to estimate the degree of pituitary dysfunction (Jostel et al. Clin End 2009).
Methods: Retrospective analysis of patients investigated for pituitary hormone deficiencies (n=276; M:F 166:110) in our centre.
• Group A: 120 patients with multiple pituitary hormone deficiencies (MPHD);
A1 (27) remained euthyroid,
A2 (93) had CeH and of these 73 started levothyroxine together or before growth hormone (A2Early) and 14 after growth hormone (A2Late).
• Group B: 156 patients with different conditions with increased hypothalamic pituitary dysfunction risk;
B1 (52) had isolated growth hormone deficiency (IGHD).
Results: At diagnosis group A patients had lower TSHI than group B (P<0.01). TSH, fT4 and TSHI were not significantly different between group A1 and B1. At diagnosis no significant difference was found in TSH, FT4 and TSHI between A2Early and A2Late (P 0.608, 0.254, 0.299 respectively). Interestingly TSH and TSHI remained significantly different throughout the followup, between A1 and A2 (P 0.001). fT4 was significantly lower in A2Early compared to A1 (P 0.005) at diagnosis, and, following GH, it decreased in A2Late. GH secretion impacts on thyroid function; however following GH treatment TSH and TSHI did not change significantly within each subgroups (B1 P 0.820 and 0.26; A1 P 0.052 and 0.071; A2Late P 0.54 and 0.37 respectively).
| A1 (Mean) | AGE | TSHI | TSH | FT4 | A2 Late (Mean) | AGE | TSHI | TSH | FT4 | |
| Diagnosis | 2.09±2.08 | 2.54±0.46 | 4.06±3.67 | 15.27±2.96 | 2.624±2.88 | 1.79±0.68 | 2.14±1.55 | 12.69±2.27 | ||
| After GH | 3.2±2.27 | 2.28±0.38 | 2.55±1.17 | 14.24±2.12 | 2.80±2.27 | 1.78±0.35 | 2.06±1.10 | 11.26±2.13 | ||
| Later/ start TH | 6.91±2.31 | 2.26±0.27 | 2.49±1.36 | 14.2±1.14 | 3.98±2.42 | 1.65±0.32 | 2.22±1.11 | 11.05±1.91 | ||
| Group B | AGE | TSHI | TSH | FT4 | Group B1 | AGE | TSHI | TSH | FT4 | |
| Diagnosis | 3.58±2.48 | 2.43±0.37 | 2.87±1.61 | 15.11±2.45 | 4.48±1.93 | 2.43±0.37 | 2.86±1.93 | 15.22±2.5 | ||
| After GH | 5.60±2.13 | 2.29±0.38 | 2.81±2.07 | 14.41±1.94 | 5.34±1.96 | 2.35±0.35 | 3.01±2.12 | 14.51±1.94 | ||
| Later/ start TH | 3.34±4.23 | 1.95±0.45 | 10.6616.55 | 8.97±1.5 | 7.63±2.09 | 2.35±0.38 | 2.79±1.86 | 14.82±2.11 | ||
Conclusion: Our data suggest that TSHI can be a predictor of CeH, enabling earlier diagnosis of CeH in “at-risk” patients.
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