Background. Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT), also known as chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis or chronic autoimmune thyroiditis, is the most common form of thyroiditis affecting more than 10% of females and 2% of males. The present study aims to evaluate the beneficial effect of a combined treatment, Myo-Inositol plus selenomethionine, on subclinical hypothyroidism. Methods. The study was designed as...

Patients with Hashimoto encephalitis may present with seizures, stroke-like episodes, transient focal and global neurological deficits, and a variety of neuropsychiatric disturbances. The encephalopathy evolves with elevated anti-thyroid peroxidase antibodies, independent of hormonal thyroid function. A vasculitic basis is considered in cases that show inflammatory vasculopathy in brain biopsy ...

OBJECTIVE Cross-sectional studies have reported that the risk of thyroid dysfunction in patients with type 1 diabetes is two- to threefold higher than in the general population. However, longitudinal studies to determine the natural history of thyroid dysfunction in patients with type 1 diabetes are lacking. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We analyzed the incidence of thyroid dysfunction over tim...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Thyroid hemiagenesis is a rare anomaly, more commonly seen on the left side (ratio 4:1) and in females (ratio 3:1). The first to describe this anomaly was Handfield Jones in 1852. CASE PRESENTATION We present a 66 year old female patient with right thyroid hemiagenesis, parathyroid adenoma on the side of hemiagenesis and parathyroid hyperplasia on the contralateral si...

Irfan Yavaşoğlu 4.8.2008 Editor: The article entitled “Anti-thyroid antibodies and thyroid dysfunction in rheumatoid arthritis (RA): prevalence and clinical value” written by Atzeni et al. [1] and published in one of the recent issues of your journal was quite interesting. Here, we would like to emphasize some points. RA is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disorder that affects approximately 0...