Previous studies indicate that 25-45% of chronic urticaria patients have an autoimmune etiology. Autologous serum skin test (ASST) and autologous plasma skin test (APST) are simple tests for diagnosing chronic autoimmune urticaria (CAU). However, there are still some questions about the specificity of these tests. This study consisted of 50 patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) and ...

Objective. Aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of autoimmune thyroid disease, persistence of antithyroid antibodies, effect of gluten-free diet, and long-term outcome of thyroid function in pediatric patients with celiac disease (CD). Methods. 67 patients with CD aged from 1 year to 16 years were screened for thyroid antithyroperoxidase, antithyroglobulin and anti-TSH receptor anti...

Struma ovarii is a rare kind of ovarian teratoma which consists >50% thyroid tissue. It contributes to 2-5% all teratomas. 5-10% teratomas undergo malignant transformation. To date, due its rarity, unpredictable nature and high recurrence rate no consensus have been reached regarding the optimal treatment strategy. Therefore, it prudent highlight this disease management as sharing experiences w...

Background: Radioiodine treatment in thyroidectomized differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) patients was introduced the world 1940s and Bangladesh 1980. Long experience of lifelong follow up DTC with proper documentation medical records enriched archive division National Institute Nuclear Medicine & Allied Sciences (NINMAS). Aims: To evaluate response radioiodine at NINMAS analyze outcome ...

This paper describes the incidence of positive serological tests for autoantibodies to gastric mucosal antigen and to thyroglobulin in patients with chronic gastritis, pernicious anaemia, and postgastrectomy gastritis. The results support the recent concept (British Medical Journal, 1962) that diffuse atrophic gastritis, which is the essential lesion in most cases of pernicious anaemia, may hav...

We present the case of a fourteen-year-old girl who complained of depression, weight gain and hirsutism. She was obese, apathetic and had poverty of movements. She had anaemia, deteriorated renal function and elevated hepatic enzymes. Free T3 was <0.19 pg/mL and TSH 276 UI/mL. Antithyroglobulin and antimicrosome antibodies were positive, and the thyroid ultrasonography revealed thyroiditis. She...

A 67-year-old man receiving antithrombotic therapy developed rapidly progressive amnesia. T2-weighted images of brain MRI revealed hyperintense lesions in the bilateral thalami accompanied by microbleeds. Antithyroglobulin antibodies and autoantibodies against the N-terminal of α-enolase (NAE) were identified in the patient's serum; therefore, Hashimoto's encephalopathy (HE) was suspected. Alth...

Graves' disease (GD) may be observed as an infrequent adverse effect after radioiodine therapy (RAIT) for toxic thyroid adenoma (TA) and toxic multi nodular goiter (MNG). We present a case of a 55-year-old male with a toxic nodule who was treated with RAI. After therapy, the patient's serum free triiodothyronine (fT3) and free thyroxine (fT4) levels gradually increased. Antithyroid peroxidase (...