Testing overview for canine thyroid disorder This publication is extracted from Diana Laverdure’s and my book The Canine Thyroid Epidemic: Answers You Need for Your Dog. Thyroid disease is complex and diagnosis of hypothyroidism is difficult to achieve. So, I believe everyone in the veterinary community can benefit from understanding why specific diagnostic tests are necessary in order to make ...

Unilateral thyroid agenesis (thyroid hemiagenesis) is a rare disorder with less than 300 cases currently in the world literature. The current clinical importance of this condition lies in the possibility that such patients may be at an increased risk for a wide range of future pathology in the contralateral lobe. If this indeed proves to be the case in future, these patients need to be identifi...

Abstract Background Hashimoto’s encephalopathy (HE) is a rare but controversial syndrome showing variety of neurological and psychiatric manifestations associated with autoimmune thyroiditis. Case presentation We present case 46-year-old hypertensive female who developed acute onset behavioral symptoms mimicking affective disorder (mania). Investigations revealed high levels anti-thyroid peroxi...

Thyroid disorders are the most common endocrine disorder seen in clinical practice and solitary thyroid nodule is one of presentations disease. This study aimed at profiling cases with respect to incidence nodule, age, gender, benign malignant proportions set a clinically applicable approach evaluation management. prospective followed 30 over 2 years. It showed that almost 20 percent all nodule...

Resistance to thyroid hormone (RTH) is a rare autosomal dominant hereditary disorder. Here in, we report two patients with RTH in whom differentiated thyroid cancer was diagnosed. Two patients were admitted to our clinic and their laboratory results were elevated thyroid hormone levels with unsuppressed TSH. We considered this situation thyroid hormone resistance in the light of laboratory and ...

Benign hereditary chorea (BHC) is a childhood-onset, hyperkinetic movement disorder normally with little progression of motor symptoms into adult life. The disorder is caused by mutations to the NKX2.1 (TITF1) gene and also forms part of the "brain-lung-thyroid syndrome", in which additional developmental abnormalities of lung and thyroid tissue are observed. In this review, we summarize the ma...

Background: Subacute Thyroiditis is a self-limiting thyroidal illness caused by viral infection with clinical course divided into three phases: hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism followed euthyroidism. Several infections have been linked to be associated subacute thyroiditis but often no etiology can found. Objective: The aim of this study explore possible link between and Coronaviru...

Abstract Purpose Thyroid disorders are a major public health burden. Generally, women exhibit higher differentials in the prevalence of these disorders. This study focuses on socio-economic and behavioural correlates thyroid along with their spatial clustering among reproductive age India. Methods The uses dataset from fourth National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) carried out 2015–16 to assess ...