Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Associations of autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) with autoimmune gastri-tis and mental disorders have been suggested, but evidence for a connection is lacking.Methods: We compared the co-incidence of parietal cell antibodies (PCA>20 RE/ml), intrinsic factor antibodies (IFA>1.19 AU/ml), vitamin B12 plasma levels (<200 pg/ml) and mental illness in patients with AITD (n=398), e.g. active (TPO+), atrophic (TPO−) and ...

Methods: To evaluate factors influencing the relative risk (RR) for vocal fold paralysis we analyzed 3019 patients (69.5% female) having surgery for benign thyroid diseases (58.7% nodular goiter, 17.5% inactive nodes, 16.3% thyroid autonomy, 6.5% Grave’s disease). Operations were performed with intraoperative neuromonitoring by general surgeons (GS, n=1637) or physicians specially trained for ENT (n=1382). 19.2% of the procedures were carried out by resi...