Evagelos N Liberopoulos, Moses S Elisaf
Thyroid disorders are known to influence lipid metabolism and are common in dyslipidemic patients. Overt and subclinical hypothyroidism have an adverse effect on the serum lipid profile that may predispose to the development of atherosclerotic disease. Although thyroid substitution therapy is beneficial for patients with overt hypothyroidism …
Demetrios A. Koutras
“Goiter” means thyroid enlargement, and “endemic” means frequent in a certain locality. The problem is from what volume and up a thyroid is considered to be large enough as to be classified as goiter and also from what prevalence and up an area is considered to be endemic. It is obvious that by playing with these definitions one may increase or decrease …
Gerasimos Krassas, Spyridon N. Karras, Nikolaos Pontikides
The most common thyroid diseases during pregnancy are hyper- and hypothyroidism and their variants including isolated hypothyroxinemia (hypo-T4), autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) and different types of goiter. AITD represents the main cause of hypothyroidism during pregnancy ranging in prevalence between 5 and 20% …
Menelaos L. Batrinos
Over the past two decades a plethora of publications and clinical practice data have established that subclinical thyroid dysfunction is a common condition occurring much more frequently than the overt expression of thyroid disease. Subclinical hypothyroidism is considered to be the most common of these entities…
Robin P. Peeters
With an increase in age, marked changes in thyroid hormone production, metabolism, and action occur. This results in an increased prevalence of (subclinical) thyroid disease in the elderly…
Feçor Agaçi
The purpose of this study was to evaluate certain clinical aspects of hyperthyroidism in Albania, which is an iodine deficient country, as it is known that iodine intake may influence the type of thyroid hyperfunction. The files of sixty-six patients with thyrotoxicosis who were hospitalised for their disease were retrospectively analysed. 59.1% of these patients suffered from toxic multinodular goiter …
Andrew Collier, Sujoy Ghosh, Mario Hair, Iqbal Malik, Jim McGarvie
OBJECTIVE: Radioiodine therapy is the most commonly used therapy for patients with Graves’ disease (GD) in the United Kingdom. It is considered safe, effective and relatively inexpensive. The aim of our study was to examine the outcome of 131Iodine therapy in patients with GD when two different activities of 131Iodine were used …
Zadalla Mouslech, Maria Somali, Anastasia Konstantina Sakali, Christos Savopoulos, George Mastorakos, Apostolos I. Hatzitolios
A 43-year-old woman, previously misdiagnosed as having primary hyperthyroidism and treated with antithyroid drugs, presented to us with overt hyperthyroidism, high levels of thyroid hormones and elevated thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH). Μagnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a pituitary microadenoma extending suprasellarly. The patient responded favorably to initial treatment with somatostatin analogs for 2 years but due to the escape phenomenon, TSH levels escalated and hyperthyroidism relapsed …