Endocrine Abstracts

Objectives: To investigate how the immune associations (IA) may have significance for diagnosis or therapy in thyroiditis.Material and method: i) Patients: A. ‘Classical’ Hashimoto thyroiditis (hyper-ATPO-emia, HT)=1196, B. thyroiditis with isolated hyper-ATG-emia, with normal ATPO (T-ATG)=73, C. thyroiditis ‘sero-negative’ (normal ATPO and ATG, pathology diagnosis)=8, D. idiopathic myxedema (hypothyroidism, no A,B,C)=69; E. control=1...

Aim: Analyzing the evolution of thyroid function in thyroiditis and related disease during 1–17 years.Materials and methods: i) Diagnostic: Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT): a) antithyroperoxydase antibodies (ATPO) cut-off 34 IU/ml. b) If ATPO=normal, thyroiditis was considered if high antithyroglobuline antibodies (T-ATG). c) Idiopathic mixedema (IM): hypothyroidism, no ATPO, no ATG, and no TRAB. ii) Patients: HT: 1196; T-ATG: 73; IM: 69. Women/me...