BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate the correlations of thyroid antibody and thyroid hormone in postradiotherapy (post-RT) patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). METHODS Serum thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), free triiodothyronine (fT3), free thyroxine (fT4), thyroperoxidase antibody (anti-TPO), and thyroglobulin antibody (anti-TG) levels of 55 patients with NPC were...

Thyroiditis is a general term that encompasses several clinical disorders characterized by inflammation of the thyroid gland. The most common is Hashimoto thyroiditis; patients typically present with a nontender goiter, hypothyroidism, and an elevated thyroid peroxidase antibody level. Treatment with levothyroxine ameliorates the hypothyroidism and may reduce goiter size. Postpartum thyroiditis...

Background: Anti-thyroid peroxidase antibody (anti-TPO antibody) is a member of thyroid autoantibodies which are important in inducing and also diagnosing autoimmune thyroid diseases. Thyroid autoimmunity can cause several forms of thyroiditis and abnormal thyroid functions, ranging from hypothyroidism to hyperthyroidism. Objective: To evaluate the relationship between serum levels of anti-TPO ...

background: the physiological changes in thyroid gland during pregnancy have been suggested as one of the pathophysiologic causes of preeclampsia. objective: the aim of this study was comparison of serum levels of tri?iodothyronine (t3), thyroxine (t4), and thyroid?stimulating hormone (tsh) in preeclampsia and normal pregnancy. materials and methods: in this case?control study, 40 normal pregna...

background: to investigate thyroid function in preeclamptic patients in comparison with normal pregnant women. methods: in this analytical cross-sectional study free thyroxine (t4), and thyroid stimulating hormone (tsh) levels were measured in 100 preeclamptic patients and were compared with free t4 and tsh levels in 101 normal pregnant women in their third trimester of pregnancy. patients with...

W e read with interest the work of González et al. (1), which to our knowledge is the largest study of the predictive value of thyroid antibody testing for future thyroid dysfunction in patients with type 1 diabetes. We previously examined this in a retrospective study of 467 patients with diabetes (81 with type 1 diabetes) and found that, although the presence of thyroid autoantibodies at diag...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Both thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) and thyroid stimulating antibody (TSAb) negative Graves's disease (GD) is extremely rare. Here we present such a patient. CASE PRESENTATION The patient was a 76-year-old woman who was diagnosed as having schizophrenia forty years ago. She did not show characteristic symptoms for hyperthyroidism, such as swelling of thyroid, exoph...