The authors investigated the most frequent clinical symptoms in a group of 132 women with latent hypothyroidism (mean age 40.2 years, incl. 102 women younger than 45 years). They assessed the diagnosis on the basis of an excessive TSH response after administration of 0.2 mg thyreoliberin by ...
In the clinical picture of all patients identified either by NBS or disease onset, all showed significant differences. In both cohorts, vomiting and drowsiness were the most prominent symptoms. Furthermore, a comparison of the occurrence of different kinds of clinical features was made between ...
Serious primary hypothyroidism, disclosed fortuitously through routine thyroid function test derangements, was found in a 40-year-old woman admitted to the hospital with a tentative diagnosis of ischemic heart disease. The clinical picture and electrocardiographic alterations of pseudo-ischemic heart disease...
This study identified several differences between bipolar depression and unipolar depression, particularly in terms of age, age at onset, life events, and family history. To control for the influence of age on peripheral blood markers, a 1:1 propensity score matching method was applied. After adju...
Interestingly, this subgroup of patients shows less systemic manifestations and a lower prevalence of autoantibodies [89]. In this case, the differential diagnosis between SS and other potential disorders, such as menopause, hypothyroidism, diabetes, malignancy, depression or fibromyalgia, may be ...
8 Although the cause of this fatigue is undetermined, hypothyroidism (usually subclinical), which is frequently associated with SS, may contribute to it.1 Seven percent of patients with fibromyalgia have been shown to also have SS,19 and fibromyalgia has been reported to be present in 22% of ...
These tests identify diseases that may manifest psychosis such as hypo- and hypernatremia, hypo- and hyperglycemia, hepatic encephalopathy, uremia, hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism, or hypercalcemia in the course of hyperparathyroidism [18]. Thyroid hormone levels and thyroid peroxidase antibodies are als...
Nodular vasculitis has been associated with several diseases: hepatitis B and C, rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, leukemia, hypothyroidism. Some drugs are also associated with NV – propylthiouracil, and etanercept.13, 16 Clinical manifestations They are characterized by erythem...
Most predictive of the development of hypothyroidism is the presence of both elevated TSH and antibodies, and those children should be tested more frequently than other children with DS [9]. When both are normal in the first decade of life, there is a low probability of hypothyroidism in the...
Information about the effects of clinical diseases on the blood picture of live pet rabbits or the use of blood tests as diagnostic or prognostic indicators has increased exponentially over the past decade with the increasing popularity of rabbits as pets. 2.1.1. Sample collection The collection ...