We saw a total of 4 episodes of the recurrence of subacute thyroiditis in 3 patients out of 222. The recurrent episodes were similar to the first episodes of subacute thyroiditis. The titers of various viral antibodies were not increased significantly during the clinical course of the recurrence. Regarding the HLA typing, A26, B35 and C3 were positive in all 3 patients. The association between ...

Aim. Chronic autoimmune thyroiditis and type 1 diabetes mellitus are organ-specific autoimmune diseases. There is large evidence that autoimmunity against the thyroid gland in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus is increased, but little is known about anti-islet cell autoimmune status in patients with chronic autoimmune thyroiditis. We evaluated the concentration of antibodies against glutam...

PURPOSE This study aims to investigate the usefulness of (18)F-FDG PET/CT for distinguishing between primary thyroid lymphoma (PTL) and chronic thyroiditis. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the data of 196 patients with diffuse (18)F-FDG uptake of the thyroid gland and enrolled patients who were diagnosed as having PTL or chronic thyroiditis based on the medical records, pathological findi...

Early histological changes in the thyroid gland were examined in 30 patients with juvenile thyrotoxicosis, by means of needle biopsy. Based on the degree of lymphocytic infiltration and degenerative changes in follicular epithelium, results were classified into four groups. A: hyperplastic changes without cellular infiltration (6 patients, 20%); B: hyperplastic changes with areas of focal thyro...

Hashimoto's thyroiditis is associated with myeloproliferative and lymphoproliferative neoplasms. The risk of carcinoma of the thyroid gland is increased in these patients. Furthermore, multiple myeloma can present together with some autoimmune diseases. We report the case of a 57-year-old woman with Hashimoto's thyroiditis who developed multiple myeloma with myeloma nephropathy. Her renal funct...

Studies concerning the antigenicity of thyroglobulin fragments allow the characterization of the epitopes but do not consider the role of heavier antigenic fragments that could result in vivo from the action of endoproteases. Here we assess the relative importance of the fragments obtained from thyroglobulin by limited proteolysis with trypsin and compare by immunoblotting their reactivity to s...

Thyroiditis is an inflammation of the thyroid gland that may be painful and tender when caused by infection, radiation, or trauma, or painless when caused by autoimmune conditions, medications, or an idiopathic fibrotic process. The most common forms are Hashimoto's disease, subacute granulomatous thyroiditis, postpartum thyroiditis, subacute lymphocytic thyroiditis, and drug-induced thyroiditi...

www.aafp.org/afp AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN 1717 ation of the thyroid subsequent to Graves’ disease and surgical removal of the thyroid gland. Long-term thyroid dysfunction after subacute granulomatous thyroiditis (de Quervain’s thyroiditis) or subacute lymphocytic thyroiditis (silent or painless thyroiditis) is fairly rare. Full thyroid function is regained in 90 percent of patients with these ...

Background: Struma ovarii (SO) is a rare phenomenon. In addition, it can be identified from the histological assessment and may show the characteristics of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis in rare cases. In several cases, malignant stroma ovarii is found to produce hyperthyroidism while very few cases are reported with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. The present study reported SO co-incident with Hashimoto’s t...