Objective. The risk of atherosclerotic heart disease is increased in autoimmune thyroiditis, although the reason is not clear. Lipoprotein(a) (Lp(a)) excess has been identified as a powerful predictor of premature atherosclerotic vascular diseases. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between Lp(a) levels and thyroid hormones in Hashimoto patients. Method. 154 premenopausal ...

Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is a common autoimmune disorder, which causes significant morbidity. Its pathophysiological hallmark is lymphocytic infiltration of thyroid follicles resulting in autoimmune glandular destruction. Various studies have successfully outlined the genetic and environmental factors responsible for the causation of the disease. In this chapter we will discuss our current under...

Five cases of struma lymphomatosa corresponding in every essential detail with those reported by Hashimoto have come under our observation, on reviewing 205 biopsy reports of the thyroid in the department of pathology for eleven years ending with December 1943. Since the publication of Riedel's descriptions of struma in 1896, and of Hashimoto's struma lymphomatosa in 1912, there has been much d...

Dr. Hakaru Hashimoto (Figure 1), born 5 May 1881, was the third son of a prominent family who had practiced medicine for generations in Iga Ueno, Mie Prefecture, Japan. He was one of the first graduates to receive a bachelor’s degree from the Fukuoka Medical College of Kyoto Imperial University in 1907. Hakaru Hashimoto received tutelage and training from Professor Miyake of the Department of S...

Bäcklund transformations for smooth and “space discrete” Hashimoto surfaces are discussed and a geometric interpretation is given. It is shown that the complex curvature of a discrete space curve evolves with the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) of Ablowitz and Ladik, when the curve evolves with the Hashimoto or smoke ring flow. A doubly discrete Hashimoto flow is derived and it i...

Hiromitsu Terao, Masao Hashimoto, Shinichi Hashimoto, and Yoshihiro Furukawa Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Tokushima University, Minamijosanjima-cho, Tokushima 770-8502, Japan a Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kobe University, Nadaku, Kobe 657-8501, Japan b Faculty of School Education, Hiroshima University, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8524,...

The authors describe two patients with thyroid lymphoma and Hashimoto thyroiditis; T1- and T2-weighted MR sequences were used. In one patient, the region of lymphoma showed a different signal intensity on T2 images; in the other patient, the signal level was identical to the Hashimoto disease. In sum, the processes could not be significantly differentiated using MR.