Abstract In Finland, the earliest remains of a Christian church and cemetery date to Late Iron Age (800–1150/1300 AD) have been excavated in Ravattula Ristimäki, Kaarina, southwestern Finland. this study, seven assumingly plant fibre textile samples from individual inhumation graves were analysed identify their materials. The aim study was investigate possibilities identifying archaeological us...

tepe sagzabad, a site situated on the qazvin plain of north-central iran, was excavated from 1970 to 1998 by the institute ofarchaeology of tehran university. recent excavations by h. tala’i (1997-1999) yielded some metal artifacts dating to theearly iron age. ten of these copper-based samples were investigated using inductively coupled plasma optical emissionspectroscopy (icp-oes), scanning el...

BACKGROUND Limited data are available on the association between vitiligo and autoimmune thyroid disease in pediatric patients. In addition, reported studies of pediatric patients have been based on a population known to have vitiligo and subsequently evaluated for the presence of thyroid function abnormalities. METHODS A retrospective chart review was performed on 333 children who had been f...

BACKGROUND Graves' disease (GD) is a complex disease in which genetic predisposition is modified by environmental factors. The aim of the study was to examine the association between genetic variants in genes encoding proteins involved in immune response and the age at diagnosis of GD. METHODS 735 GD patients and 1216 healthy controls from Poland were included into the study. Eight genetic va...

Pathology of the thyroid gland tissue was characterized in patients with Triiodothyronine (T3)-predominant Graves' disease who had normal levels of serum T4 but increased levels of serum T3 during antithyroid drug therapy. In order to compare this group of patients with an usual type of Graves' patients, age, sex, dietary intake of iodide, duration of antithyroid therapy and the dose of thionam...

Background: There are few published reports on the clinical characteristics of auto-immune thyroid disease in the African. Objectives: To assess the clinical features Thyrotropin Receptor (TR) and Thyroid Peroxidase (TPO) antibodies in Toxic Graves’ and Spontaneous Primary Hypothyroidism (SPH). Methods: Cross sectional study of black African patients with Toxic Graves’ and SPH attending an Endo...

Exophthalmos makes up a clinical manifestation very frequent in Graves’ disease. European Group on Graves’ Orbitopathy proposes intravenous glucocorticoids to treat severe, moderate-to-severe and active Graves’ orbitopathy as the first line treatment. The aim of our study is to report results obtained with patients treated for Graves’ ophthalmopathy with this protocol in real life. It is a desc...

Graves' disease is the most common cause of thyrotoxicosis in women of childbearing age. Approximately 1% of pregnant women been treated before, or are being treated during pregnancy for Graves' hyperthyroidism. In pregnancy, as in not pregnant state, thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) receptor (TSHR) antibodies (TRAbs) are the pathogenetic hallmark of Graves' disease. TRAbs are heterogeneous fo...

PURPOSE Propylthiouracil is one of the thionamides used in the treatment of Graves' disease. The drug has serious side effects and long-term treatment might be needed to achieve remission. We designed this study to evaluate the clinical and thyroid Doppler characteristics that might predict time to remission and treatment failure in propylthiouracil treated Graves' patients. METHODS 26 patien...