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. 2018 Oct 4;50(12):853–862. doi: 10.1055/a-0723-9023

Table 3 Potential indications for the measurement of thyrotropin receptor blocking antibodies.

  1. Graves‘ disease: post radioactive iodine treatment and/or during therapy with antithyroid drugs

  2. Autoimmune Hashimoto‘s thyroiditis

  3. Autoimmune thyroid disease in pregnancy

  4. Neonatal hypothyroidism

  5. Postpartum thyroid disease

  6. Differential diagnosis of thyroiditis

  7. Differential diagnosis of hypothyroidism

  8. Down Syndrome *

  9. Non-thyroidal autoimmune diseases (SLE, RA, type 1 diabetes, myasthenia)

* According to reference 92 ; SLE: Systemic lupus erythematodus, RA: Rheumatoid arthritis.