Background: Depression is one of the most common psychiatric disorders with substantial morbidity and mortality. It known to be associated changes in hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis, thus may accompanied by subtle thyroid dysfunction. Thus, our study aims determine prevalence characteristics dysfunction newly diagnosed depressive patients. Materials Methods: A prospective descriptive cross ...

Background: Each toxic agent results in unique presentations, depending on what neurophysiological changes occur following exposure. Scientific understanding of lead toxicity in the organ systems and at low levels of exposure continues to evolve. However, effects of lead poisoning on the thyroid gland function are controversial. In this descriptive study, changes in thyroid hormones in patients...

Antibodies interact with the follicular cell, colloid, or thyroglobulin antigens and activate the complement cascade and cell-mediated cytotoxicity. The progressive destruction of follicles and secondary fibrosis eventually leads to a failure of thyroid hormone production. More than 60 or 70% of the thyroid tissue needs to be destroyed before we see changes in laboratory measures of thyroid fun...

Antibodies interact with the follicular cell, colloid, or thyroglobulin antigens and activate the complement cascade and cell-mediated cytotoxicity. The progressive destruction of follicles and secondary fibrosis eventually leads to a failure of thyroid hormone production. More than 60 or 70% of the thyroid tissue needs to be destroyed before we see changes in laboratory measures of thyroid fun...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationship between pulmonary function tests, arterial blood gases, and thyroid gland functions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). SUBJECTS AND METHODS Thirty-two patients (mean age 64.1 +/- 7.3 years, range 53-84 years) with stable COPD (mean duration of disease 11.1 +/- 9.1 years, range 1-30 years) and 15 healthy control cases participa...

Physiological production of thyroid hormone requires an intact hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) axis and involves thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH, or thyrotropin) released from the anterior pituitary gland. TSH stimulates thyroid follicular cells to synthesize, store and release the thyroid hormones thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3) [1]. Chemical laboratory testing of thyroid functi...

Sanjad-Sakati Syndrome (SSS) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by congenital hypoparathyroidism, growth retardation and dysmorphism. Thyroid status of patients with SSS has not been widely explored. Therefore, we aimed to review the occurrence of autoimmune thyroiditis, which is commonly associated with other genetic disorders, in SSS. A retrospective hospital based study was...