Endocrine Abstracts

In order to compare effects of treatment in hyperthyroid patients treated with thyrostatic drug alone and those treated with thyrostatic plus levothyroxine we reviewed data from 60 consecutive patients attending our outpatient clinic. 27 patients, 25 ♀ and 2 ♂, aged 27–68 years were treated with thyrostatic drug alone, while 33 patients, 31 ♀ and 2 ♂, aged 19–88 years received thyrostatic plus levothyroxine. Number of remissions was greate...

We retrospectively collected data from 62 pregnant females who were followed for hyperthyroidism (n=17), hypothyroidism (n=21), euthyroid Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (n=9), and simple goitre and other non-autoimmune thyroid diseases (n=15).Among them 33 showed at least once during pregnancy low FT4, or low FT3 and FT4 in total on 74 occasions. Low FT4 was found on 15, low FT3 on 15 and low FT<s...