Diagnostic Efficacy of FNAC along with Assay of Thyroid Hormones and Thyroid Peroxidase Antibodies in Chronic Thyroiditis

Thyroid peroxidase antibodies in children with autoimmune thyroiditis.

AIMS To compare the prevalence of thyroid peroxidase antibodies in 25 children with autoimmune thyroid disorders and in 41 children and young adults with type 1 diabetes, and to test the prevalence of thyrotropin receptor antibodies. METHODS Two commercially available radioimmunoassays for antibodies to thyroid peroxidase, a commercially available agglutination test of particles coated with t...

Diagnostic Role of Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology in Thyroiditis along with Thyroid Hormone Assay

Background: Thyroiditis is the inflammation of the thyroid gland. Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) is the most common cause of hypothyroidism in those areas of the world where iodine levels are sufficient. Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, a synonym of chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis or autoimmune thyroiditis, is the second most common thyroid lesion diagnosed on FNAC after goiter. FNAC plays a significant ...

Thyroid antibodies and thyroiditis.

Thyroid Peroxidase and Thyroglobulin Antibodies and Ophthalmopathy in Patients with Graves’ Disease, Hashimoto Thyroiditis and Transient

Background Inflammation of the orbital connective tissue, extraocular muscles and upper eyelids occurs in about 40% of patients with Graves hyperthyroidism [Graves Ophthalmopathy (GO)] while mild eye signs including upper eyelid retraction are found in as many as 25% of patients with Hashimoto thyroiditis and, occasionally, transient thyroiditis. Some workers have proposed a relationship betwee...

Thyroid heterogeneity, as indicated by the CV of ultrasonographic intensities, correlates with anti-thyroid peroxidase antibodies in euthyroid Hashimoto’s thyroiditis

OBJECTIVE To prospectively evaluate the heterogeneous appearance of the thyroid gland, reflecting inflammation and destruction in euthyroid Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT), we investigated the clinical utilities of the heterogeneity index (HI) [the coefficient of variance (CV) of the ultrasonographic (US) intensities], focusing on anti-thyroid peroxidase antibodies (TPO-Ab), which represent not on...