BACKGROUND Iodine deficiency is severe public health problem in Ethiopia. Although urinary iodine excretion level (UIE) is a better indicator for IDD the goitre rate is commonly used to mark the public health significance. The range of ill effect of IDD is however beyond goitre in Ethiopia. In this study the prevalence of goitre and its association with reproductive failure, and the knowledge o...

Introduction THE hereditary and familial aspects of exophthalmic goitre, although not entirely disregarded, have not apparently been closely studied in the past. They have most often received attention in connexion with the occurrence of exophthalmic goitre among children (Cockayne, 1928; Atkinson, 1938; Moolten and Bruger, 1942) while isolated families notably affected by the disease are also ...

We evaluated the prevalence of autoimmune thyroiditis in a random sample of 1188 schoolchildren aged 8-13 years with normalized iodine intake in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The prevalence of goitre was 39.6%; the majority had palpable but non-visible goitre. Of a subsample of 500 children, median urinary iodine excretion (18/8 microg/dL) indicated normal iodine intake. Thyroid peroxidase (TPO...

Graves's disease (diffuse toxic goitre) Toxic nodular goitre Multinodular (Plummer's disease) Uninodular (toxic adenoma) Nodular goitre with Graves's disease Excess thyroid stimulating hormone Pituitary tumour Choriocarcinoma and hydatidiform mole Embryonal testicular carcinoma Other malignancy (?) Extraneous thyroid hormone Exogenous: Intentional factitious Overenthusiastic therapy During T-3 ...

INTRODUCTION Iodine deficiency disorder (IDD) is one of the preventable major public health problems in India. It has been always thought that goitre was only found in the Himalayan goitre belt. Recent surveys outside the conventional goitre belt have identified foci of iodine deficiency in other parts of India. AIM 1) To assess the prevalence of goitre among school-going children in the age ...

Objectives To study the incidence of recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) palsy in Total thyroidectomy done for multinodular goitre. Surgical safety of total thyroidectomy in Multinodular goitre and type of vocal cord paralysisstudied. Voice changes in immediate post-operative period and within three weeks following total thyroidectomy are assessed. Materials &Methods: A prospective, longitudinal an...

Multinodular goitre is the most prevalent thyroid pathological abnormality worldwide, although its geographical incidence varies greatly according to environmental iodization Most countries in central and southern Europe have endemic goitre areas with a prevalence of multinodular goitre (MG) of 3-6%. In United States, the annual incidence of nodular thyroid disease is 0.1% to 1.5% and the preva...

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 4/18 December 2006 185 11/12 677-677 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2006 www.mja.com.au Christmas Offerings in Nilgiri rhesus monkeys is the result of low iodine mountain environment. Further investigation is necessa the exact reason for the goitre. A literature search failed to identify any studies of end humans living in the Nilgiri region, a...

We present the case of a thirty-year-old female patient who was referred to the endocrinology team with an enlarging goitre and biochemical hypothyroidism. She had been dependent on total parenteral nutrition for the previous six years as a result of intestinal failure thought to be caused by possible underlying mitochondrial disease. The patient also suffers from a Desmin myopathy, and at pres...