Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: The aim of this study was to identify changes in thyroid hormone metabolism occurring in different thyroid functional states and to evaluate tissue response to thyroid hormone changes.Methods: Two hundred subjects (137 F, 63 M, mean age: 50.3±14.4 years) waiting to be treated or treated with total thyroidectomy for differentiated thyroid cancer were enrolled in this study. Thyroid function was investigated measuring TSH, fT4 and fT3, and ...

Background: The evaluation of health-related Quality of Life (QoL) is becoming a key component in clinical assessment of thyreopathic patients, especially those thyroidectomized for differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) and treated with levothyroxine (LT4).Aim: To evaluate QoL in different thyroid states in patients treated with total thyroidectomy for DTC and correlate it with thyroid function tests.Methods: Two hundred subjects (13...