Hashimoto’s disease is a condition that occurs when an affected person’s immune system attacks their thyroid gland and produces an immune response that results in low levels of thyroid hormones in the blood. These h...
Consumptive hypothyroidism is often the clinical condition that results from neoplasms producing their own selenodionases that convert T4 needed to be converted to active T3 into an active form of thyroid hormone, rT3...
Background: Association between vitamin D deficiency and hypothyroidism has been reported by many authors though the study results are mixed. Objective: The study was conducted to observe vitamin D status among primar...
Juvenile hypothyroidism is an unfrequent form of hypothyroidism that affects children. If not diagnosed and treated properly, it may cause severe neurological disorders during growth. The most frequent difficulties ar...
The metabolic and endocrine disorders are either increasing across the globe or may have been observed with more focus in recent years. It is not uncommon now to find out neither patients of endocrine and metabolic di...
Endocrine dysfunction in thalassaemia is amongst the most common complication and is principally attributed to excessive iron overload and suboptimal chelation. The prevalence is quite high particularly in multiethnic...
Objective: Primary hypothyroidism is frequently manifested by weight gain. Moreover, treatment with L-Thyroxine reverses the weight gain in most subjects on achieving euthyroid state. However, the characteristic fat d...
Objectives: Hypothyroidism is usually detected in an outpatient setting, but might be diagnosed during hospitalization. The prevalent symptoms are not fully defined. This study aimed to determine the clinical characte...
Background: Subclinical hypothyroidism is characterized by normal circulating thyroid hormone levels with super-normal TSH concentrations in absence of clinical manifestations. In majority of subjects, an etiologic fa...