The standard treatment for central hypothyroidism is an oral medication called Synthroid, Levoxyl, Unithroid, or Levothroid ...

There has been general agreement about the equivalent dosage of desiccated thyroid and sodium levothyroxine needed for a similar clinical effect. Starr and Liebhold-Schueck 4 considered that 0.1 mg.

Nat Clin Pract Endocrinol Metab. 2006;2(9):474-475. J.V. Hennessey is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Brown Medical School, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI, USA. Disclosure: The ...