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Liquid levothyroxine sodium therapy improves pharmacologic thyroid-stimulating hormone homeostasis in patients with reduced efficacy for tablet levothyroxine sodium after sleeve gastrectomy. A case report

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  1. Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, “Scuola Medica Salernitana”, University of Salerno, Baronissi, SA, Italy

    Luigi Schiavo, Viviana Izzo, Fabrizio Dal Piaz, Amelia Filippelli & Vincenzo Pilone

  2. Center of Excellence of Bariatric Surgery of the Italian Society of Obesity Surgery and Metabolic Disease (SICOB), Unit of General and Emergency Surgery, University Hospital San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d’Aragona, Mercato San Severino, Salerno, Italy

    Luigi Schiavo, Annalisa Giosuè & Vincenzo Pilone

  3. Unit of Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d’Aragona, Salerno, Italy

    Luigi Schiavo, Viviana Izzo, Fabrizio Dal Piaz & Amelia Filippelli

  4. Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy

    Annalisa Giosuè

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LS, AG, VI, FD, VP: patient care, concept, and design, drafting, revision. AF: the supervisor, revising critically. All authors discussed the content of the manuscript, read, and approved the final manuscript.

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Schiavo, L., Giosuè, A., Izzo, V. et al. Liquid levothyroxine sodium therapy improves pharmacologic thyroid-stimulating hormone homeostasis in patients with reduced efficacy for tablet levothyroxine sodium after sleeve gastrectomy. A case report. OBES SURG 31, 4649–4652 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-021-05518-3

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