Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Graves’ disease exacerbations during pregnancy usually occur in the first trimester with very rare cases of disease manifestation or relapse in second/third trimester. Up to five percent of neonates that are born to women with diffuse toxic goiter develop symptoms of hyperthyroidism because of transplacental transfer of TSH-receptor autoantibodies.Case presentation: Female, born in year 1990, with a history of symptomatic autoimmune hype...