L'amylose se caractérise par un dépôt extracellulaire anormal de fibrilles amyloïdes dans les différents tissus. L'apparition d'un goitre secondaire à l'infiltration amyloïde est rare. Il est exceptionnellement révélateur d'une amylose systémique. Son diagnostic est histologique. Patient âgé de 45 ans, aux antécédents de tuberculose pulmonaire traitée et suivi pour une maladie de Crohn, a consu...

OBJECTIVE Zinc is essential for many biochemical processes and also for cell proliferation. Thyroid hormones influence zinc metabolism by affecting zinc absorption and excretion. Additionally, zinc deficiency affects thyroid function. The aim of the present study was to evaluate a possible association of zinc levels with thyroid volume, thyroid hormones and thyroid autoantibody levels in health...

A controlled prospective study of autoantibody profile on black Kenyan patients with non-toxic goitre (116), thyrotoxicosis (131) and age, sex matched hospital controls is reported. The prevalence of thyroid microsomal and thyroglobulin antibodies is 3.5% in smooth non-toxic goitre and is 5.2% in the nodular non-toxic goitre compared to 1% of the control. The results reflect that autoimmune thy...

the thyroid gland is diseased?atrophied in myxoedema, and (usually) hypertrophied in exophthalmic goitre?and inasmuch as both diseases affect women much more frequently than men. But in their mode of development and the character of many of their symptoms the two diseases are very different. The symptoms of myxoedema are almost always developed in a very slow, insidious, and gradual manner ;x t...

A health and nutrition survey was conducted on tribals in three ecological zones of Madhya Pradesh namely Jhabua (West Zone), Bastar (South Zone) and Sarguja (East Zone) taking into consideration the relative contribution of agriculture, forest and a combination of both to the economy, respectively. The consumption of both foods and nutrients appear to be worse among preschool children of Jhabu...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE In post salt iodization phase endemic goitre and associated iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) were found prevalent in a randomly selected rural area of Sundarban delta and its adjoining areas of West Bengal. The present investigation was thus undertaken to study the total goitre rate, urinary iodine and thiocyanate excretion pattern of the school going children, iodine co...