Endocrine Abstracts

AbstractAim and objectives: To investigate the prevalence of relationships between kin/relatives with a known thyroid immune disorder related to Hashimoto thyroiditis.Material and method: 1. Thyroid disease diagnosis: a. ATPO > 34 u/ml = Hashimoto thyroiditis (HT); b. ATPO = normal but with high antithyroglobuline (ATG) = thyroiditis with only hyper-ATG (T-ATG); c. hypothyroidism without high ATPO/ATG = idiopat...

Aim: The biological diagnostic of Hashimoto thyroiditis (HT) is based on higher than normal levels of antithyroperoxydase antibodies (ATPO). Our goal was to establish the cut-off limit of normality (the upper limit) for ATPO in our thyroid normal patients. This limit and not that of the laboratory, should be used as diagnosis of Hashimoto thyroiditis.Material and method: 1. ATPO was investigated in patients with normal level of thyroid hormones (euthyroi...

Aim: Most research teams analyze the evolution of patients with Hashimoto thyroiditis (HT) on syndromal basis, not on pathogenetic basis. Thus, most researchers refer to thyroid function evolution. In this study we tried to show how evolve the antithyroid antibodies. Therefore, we analyzed ATPO evolutive patterns.Method: (1) ATPO levels were analyzed in several accreditated Bucharest laboratories. (2) Only patients with minimum 3 investigations were cons...

Aim: The biological diagnostic of Hashimoto thyroiditis (HT) is based on higher than normal levels of antithyroperoxydase antibodies (ATPO). Our goal was to establish the cut-off limit of normality (the upper limit) for ATPO in our thyroid normal patients. This limit, and not that of the laboratory, should be used as diagnosis of Hashimoto thyroiditis.Material and method: 1. ATPO was investigated in patients with normal level of thyroid hormones (euthyro...

Background: Hashimoto thyroiditis (HT) is defined as thyroid chronic inflammation due to high level antithyroperoxydase antoantibodies (ATPO) and/or antithyroglobuline autoantibodies (ATG) and their destructive process on thyroid cell. The diagnostic uses specific and very characteristic ultrasound features. What diagnosis has to have those patients with ultrasound features of HT, who are hypothyroid, but with normal levels of ATPOs and normal levels of ATGs ?<p c...