Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Hypothyroidism and Thyroid Cancer
- Hypothyroidism
- Cold intolerance
- Weight gain
- Constipation
- Lowering of the voice
- Menorrhagia
- Slowed mental and physical function
- Dry skin with coarse, brittle hair
- Reflexes showing slow return phase
- Treatment
- Levothyroxine: synthetic analog of thyroxine (T4)
- Triiodothyronine (T3)
- Cretinism
- Iodine-deficient diet
- Thyroid-related enzyme deficiency
- Thyroid developmental defect
- Failure of thyroid descent during development
- Transfer of antithyroid antibodies from the mother with an autoimmune disease to the fetus
- Hashimoto thyroiditis
- Hypothyroidism with painless goiter
- Dense infiltrate of lymphocytes into the thyroid
- Diagnosis
- Antithyroglobulin
- Antithyroid peroxidase antibodies
- 5:1 female predominance
- Increased incidence with age
- Associated with HLA-DR5 and HLA-B5
- Riedel's thyroiditis
- Chronic inflammation of thyroid -> fibrous tissue
- Hypothyroid or euthyroid
- Presentation
- Fixed, hard, rock-like thyroid
- Painless goiter
- Histology
- Macrophages
- Eosinophils
- Surgical complications
- Parathyroid glands
- Recurrent laryngeal nerve