Context Lobectomy is preferred in thyroid cancer to decrease surgical complications and avoid lifelong thyroid-hormone replacement. However, postoperative hypothyroidism, requiring thyroid-hormone replacement, may occur. Objective We aimed to identify the incidence and risk factors of postoperative hypothyroidism to develop a surveillance strategy after lobectomy for papillary thyroid microca...

Hashimoto’s thyroiditis can lead to depression, anxiety disorder, and sleep problems. However, this autoimmune disease has been reported be less related psychotic depression. The case applied our outpatient clinic with introversion, anhedonia, guilt thoughts. patient was admitted a preliminary diagnosis of TSH value found high in the patient’s hormone analysis. Afterward, treatment started acco...

Levothyroxine administration has been suggested to be an effective treatment for canine von Willebrand disease (vWd), but evidence supporting this treatment is lacking. Effects of levothyroxine administration were evaluated in 8 euthyroid Doberman Pinschers with plasma von Willebrand factor (vWf) concentrations < 15%, characteristic of type 1 vWd. Levothyroxine (0.04 mg/kg PO q12h) and placebo ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between juvenile autoimmune thyroiditis (JAT) and thyroid cancer in pediatric patients. DESIGN We conducted a retrospective study among children and adolescents affected by JAT. SETTINGS Data from 6 Italian pediatric endocrinology centers were collected. PARTICIPANTS Three hundred sixty-five children and adolescents affected by JAT diagnosed at 3.6...

In 2007, an Executive Committee (the Committee) of the British Thyroid Association (BTA) published a document in which it concluded that levothyroxine is safer, more stable, and more effective than Armour Thyroid. By extension, the conclusion also applies to other desiccated thyroid products, such as Erfa 4 3 Thyroid. Enough evidence is available, however, to conclude that T /T therapies with e...

Introduction: Serum Thyrotropin (TSH) level is used to assess adequacy of levothyroxine dosing for patients with hypothyroidism. Some patients have raised TSH levels despite being on an adequate dose of levothyroxine (100 mcg/day 200 mcg/day). Aim: To evaluated the effect of advising patients to take their levothyroxine 45 60 minutes before breakfast on raised serum TSH levels. Patients and Met...

Background: Previous studies on bone mineral density (BMD) abnormalities associated with hypothyroidism are scarce and not conclusive. The effect of thyroid hormone therapy BMD has shown mixed results. Aim: This study aimed primarily to determine the association between positive history levothyroxine administering risk osteoporotic fracture in Jordanian cohort both genders, including post-menop...

Reduced sensitivity to thyroid hormones (RSTH) is a rare disease that affects about 3,000 individuals, belonging to about 1,000 families. It results from reduced intracellular action of thyroid hormones (TH) genetically determined and manifests as persistent hyperthyroxinemia with non-suppressed thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH). We describe a 67-years old, Caucasian woman, with past history of...

and hypertension. Annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers' National Poison Data System of 2008 revealed that out of 9,006 unique exposures to thyroid preparations only 3 cases had major adverse outcome and there were no deaths[4]. It has been documented that there is no correlation between the amount of levothyroxine ingested and the onset and severity of the symptom...