OBJECTIVE Evaluate the success rate of first high dose 100 mCi (3.7 GBq) radioiodine remnant ablation (RRA) in low-risk differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) patients after surgery and determine factors influencing the success. MATERIAL AND METHOD Between 1994 and 2011, a retrospective analysis was performed of 166 low-risk DTC patients after surgery (age range 18-76 years, mean age 38 years, 1...

BACKGROUND Recombinant human thyrotropin (rhTSH) stimulation is frequently used to assess the disease status of patients treated for differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) when basal (unstimulated) thyroglobulin (b-Tg) is below the assay sensitivity limit. The objective of this study was to determine relationships between the b-Tg and the 72-hour rhTSH-stimulated Tg (rhTSH-Tg) using a second-gener...

INTRODUCTION Until 1997, Poland was one of the European countries suffering from mild/moderate iodine deficiency. In 1997, a national iodine prophylaxis programme was implemented based on mandatory iodisation of household salt with 30 ± 10 mg KI/kg salt, obligatory iodisation of neonatal formula with 10 μg KI/100 mL and voluntary supplementation of pregnant and breast-feeding women with additio...

Background Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) is a common cause of thyroid diseases in children and the role of vitamin D (VD) is controversial. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the influence of VD therapy on HT in children with hypovitaminosis D.<br...

introduction: recurrent abortion (ra) may be a consequence of aberrant expression of immunological factors during pregnancy. although the relative importance of immunological factors in human reproduction remains controversial, substantial evidence suggests that autoantibodies contribute to reproductive failure. production of such antibodies is under the control of cytokines; and leptin, beside...

MATHEMATICAL MODELING AND DYNAMICAL ANALYSIS OF THE OPERATION OF THE HYPOTHALAMUS – PITUITARY – THYROID (HPT) AXIS IN AUTOIMMUNE (HASHIMOTO’S) THYROIDITIS Balamurugan Pandiyan, B.S., M.S. Marquette University, 2011 This thesis is a mathematical modeling study of the operation of the negative feedback control through the hypothalamus-pituitarythyroid (HPT) axis in autoimmune (Hashimoto’s) thyroi...