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Read the Following Excerpt from a Patient's Health Record: Objective

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Read the following excerpt from a patient's health record: Objective
Temp: 98.6; HR 60; RR: 16; BP 102/62; Wt: 176.
General: No acute distress. Alert and oriented.
HEENT: PERRLA. No conjunctival injection. Mucous membranes moist and pink. TMs normal.
Neck: Postop incision site is clean, dry and intact. No erythema induration or discharge. No goiter.
Resp: CTA. w/o wheezes, rales, or rhonchi.
CV: RRR without murmur.
Gen: Soft, nontender, nondistended.
Ext: No c/c/e. Labs: Mildly elevated TSH and low T4. Calcium-normal.
According to the patient's labs, he has:


A) mildly elevated triiodothyronine and low thyroxin.
B) mildly elevated thyrotropin and low triiodothyronine.
C) mildly elevated thyrotropin and low thyroxin.
D) mildly elevated thyroxin and low triiodothyronine.
E) mildly elevated thyroxin and low thyrotropin.

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