Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Thyroid eye disease (TED) is a chronic disorder with a potential to cause facial disfigurement and visual impairment. Recent surveys of clinicians have shown variability and deficits in the management of TED. The European Group on Graves’ Orbitopathy (EUGOGO) recently published guidelines on the management of TED, recommending that all patients with TED should be referred to specialist multi-disciplinary TED clinics. We aimed to study the patients’ expe...

Introduction: There remains considerable debate over combination T4/T3 therapy for thyroid hormone replacement. Whilst large randomised-controlled studies have failed to show benefit over T4 only, there remain patients who feel better on the combination. Animal studies suggest that up to 80% of intracellular T3 in the brain is derived from circulating T4 by local deiodination. We hypothesized that in patients on thyroxine ...

Objective: To determine the 24hour thyroid hormone profile on patients with combined T3/T4 therapy.Methods: Two subgroup of patients (10 on combined T3/T4 (study, S) and 10 T4 alone (control, C) were randomly selected from 697 patients who were already involved in WATTS study, after ethical approval. Prior to study entry all patients were on 100micrograms or more of T4. The study group received 10micrograms of T3 in place of 50micrograms of T4 while the ...

Objective: Many patients receiving thyroid hormone replacement therapy complain of persistent lethargy and related symptoms even with normal TSH levels. However, it remains unclear whether this is related to thyroxine replacement or coincidental psychological morbidity.Design: Using general practice computer records, 961 patients on thyroxine (minimum of 4 months) and their age- and sex-matched controls were identified and sent a two-page questionnaire, comprising the shor...

Introduction: BC patients have a high prevalence of anti-TPO-autoantibodies (TPOAb), which seem to be protective in BC patients. We hypothesized the presence of T-lymphocytes citotoxicity against a common antigen between thyroid and BC cells.Aim: To evaluate the possible expression of TPO gene in BC.Materials: Frozen tissue specimens: 8 BC, 5 peri-tumoral breast tissues (PT), 3 pancreatic adenocarcinoma (P), 2 kidney cancers (K) an...