Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Subacute thyroiditis (SAT) is most common cause of painful thyroiditis. Although prednisolone at 40 mg/d has been preferred as initial dose for moderate to severe SAT, there have also been other recommendations as 25–60 mg/day in many reports. We retrospectively assessed the effect of steroid dose on the SAT.Methods: We examined 132 patients with SAT who visited our endocrinology clinic at least three times between January 2005 and Dec...