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Recommended first-line test for detection of /thyrotropin receptor antibodies
The following situations:
-Differential diagnosis of etiology of thyrotoxicosis in patients with ambiguous clinical findings and/or contraindicated (eg, pregnant or breast-feeding) or nondiagnostic thyroid radioisotope scans
-Diagnosis of clinically suspected Graves disease (GD) (eg, extrathyroidal manifestation of GD include endocrine exophthalmos, pretibial myxedema, thyroid acropachy) in patients with normal thyroid function tests
-Determining the risk of neonatal thyrotoxicosis in a fetus of a pregnant female with active or past active GD
-Differential diagnosis of gestational thyrotoxicosis versus first trimester manifestation or recurrence of Graves’ disease
-Assessing the risk of GD relapse after antithyroid drug treatment
Electrochemiluminescence Immunoassay