WASHINGTON —Thyrotropin receptor antibody levels in pregnant women were shown to be a reliable predictor of thyroid dysfunction in fetuses and newborns, according to findings presented at the 88th ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mothers who give birth to babies with neonatal hypothyroidism tend to have higher levels of free thyroxine and ...

Despite being the most common autoimmune disorder in the United States, knowledge surrounding thyroid disorders has not received the attention it deserves. This is unfortunate because of the diseases ...

To investigate if TSH-receptor antibody (TRAb) levels measured in early Graves’ orbitopathy (GO) stages are predictive of clinical disease course beyond 1 year after initial GO diagnosis and to ...

Fibromyalgia Patients with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) have high prevalence of anti-thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) receptor antibody (TRAb), according to a study published in the International ...

TPOAb and/or TgAb are frequently present in the sera of patients with AITD. [251] However, occasionally patients with AITD have negative thyroid autoantibody test results. TRAb are present in most ...

Graves’ disease is caused due to an overactive thyroid gland commonly due to an autoimmune condition. The thyroid gland here is the target tissue that is attacked by the body’s own defence cells – the ...

A 72-year-old man presented to the emergency department with shortness of breath. He had a history of left ventricular failure, hypertension, treated esophageal carcinoma and recurrent deep vein ...

Correction to: Eye (2013) 27, 964–971; doi: 10.1038/eye.2013.120; published online 7 June 2013 Since the publication of the above article, the authors have noted that an affiliation is missing for the ...

The use of thyroid autoantibody measurements has been hampered by specificity problems. Studies show that results vary widely depending on the method used. This is due to differences in both the ...

GRAVES' DISEASE IS CHARACTERIZED BY HYPERTHYROIDISM, diffuse goitre, ophthalmopathy and, rarely, dermopathy. Although diagnostic testing is straightforward once Graves' disease is suspected, ...