Autoimmune Chronic Thyroiditis on Chronic Hemodialysis

Autoimmune chronic thyroiditis on chronic hemodialysis.

Chronic autoimmune thyroiditis and thyroid cancer.

La relación entre la tiroiditis crónica autoinmunitaria y el linfoma de tiroides tipo linfoma de tejido linfoide asociado a mucosa (MALT) es conocida. En cambio, su relación con los cánceres del epitelio folicular del tiroides, tales como el carcinoma papilar, desde hace mucho tiempo ha sido y sigue siendo objeto de controversia, ya que además el concepto de inflamación crónica que da lugar a n...

The immunopathogenesis of chronic autoimmune thyroiditis one century after hashimoto.

Hakaru Hashimoto described 4 patients with a hitherto unknown cause for goitre, struma lymphomatosa, a century ago. He was careful to distinguish this from Riedel thyroiditis but it has become clear that fibrosis and atrophy of the thyroid are indeed components of Hashimoto thyroiditis, and in rare cases IgG4-related sclerosing disease may be an outcome. Although the cause of the lymphocytic in...

Interpretation of serum calcitonin in patients with chronic autoimmune thyroiditis.

Calcitonin (CT) is an important clinical marker for the diagnosis and follow-up of medullary thyroid carcinoma, although it is not absolutely specific. Some authors have reported C-cell hyperplasia in a number of thyroid specimens affected by Hashimoto's thyroiditis. The association between thyroiditis and hypercalcitoninemia is still controversial because some authors have reported low CT leve...

Utility of Shear Wave Elastography for Diagnosing Chronic Autoimmune Thyroiditis

The aims of this study were to evaluate the utility of shear wave elastography (SWE) using acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) for diagnosing chronic autoimmune thyroiditis (CAT) and to verify the effect of fibrotic thyroid tissue on shear wave velocity (SWV). The subjects were 229 patients with 253 normal thyroid lobes (controls) and 150 CAT lobes. The SWV for CAT (2.47 ± 0.57 m/s) was sig...