Relatively high rate of postpartum thyroiditis in the Straits of Messina area. Predictivity of both postpartum thyroiditis and permanent hypothyroidism by performing, in the first trimester of gestation, thyroid ultrasonography and measurement of serum thyroperoxidase and thyroglobulin autoantibodies [PDF]
The prevalence of postpartum thyroiditis (PPT) averages 5%, with a range from 1% (Thailand) to 22% (Wales, UK, and Liguria, Italy), but 3.6% in another Italian region (Puglia).
Flavia Di Bari +2 more
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Biochemical transition during triphasic postpartum thyroiditis: confusion with central hypothyroidism [PDF]
Hypothyroidism occurring in the postpartum period can be due to pituitary or hypothalamic disease as in Sheehan’s syndrome and postpartum autoimmune hypophysitis or due to a primary thyroid disease as in postpartum thyroiditis.
Samson O Oyibo +3 more
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Sexual Functioning and Depressive Symptoms in Women with Postpartum Thyroiditis [PDF]
Background/Objectives: The presence of autoimmune thyroiditis was found to be associated with an increased prevalence of sexual dysfunction. Women’s sexual health was not investigated in postpartum disorders of the thyroid gland.
Karolina Kowalcze +3 more
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Постпартальный тиреоидит (ППТ) представляет собой синдром переходной или прочной тиреоидной дисфункции, возникающей в первый год после родов или аборта. ППТ самое часто встречаемое тиреоидное заболевание. Его частота в границах 5-9%.
Argatska Antoaneta B., Nonchev Boyan I.
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Recurrent Silent Thyroiditis as a Sequela of Postpartum Thyroiditis [PDF]
Thyroiditis encompasses a group of disorders characterized by thyroid inflammation. Though clinically indistinguishable from silent thyroiditis, postpartum thyroiditis occurs in women within 12 months after delivery.
Preaw Hanseree +3 more
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Evolving autoimmune thyroid disease in the postpartum period with incidental identification of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma: A case report [PDF]
Postpartum immune rebound may precipitate autoimmune thyroid disease. The sequential development of postpartum thyroiditis, Graves' disease, Hashimoto thyroiditis, and papillary thyroid carcinoma in a single patient has not previously been described.A 30-
Joseph E. Capito +3 more
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Concurrent Thyroid Storm From Postpartum Thyroiditis and Lymphocytic Hypophysitis: A Rare Case [PDF]
Postpartum autoimmune thyroiditis (PAT) and lymphocytic hypophysitis (LH) are rare autoimmune conditions occurring during or after pregnancy. We present a case of a 35‐year‐old woman who developed thyroid storm because of PAT followed by LH, resulting in
Chalothorn Wannaphut +3 more
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Postpartum Thyroiditis Complicated by Peripartum Cardiomyopathy and Right Ventricular Thrombi: A Case Report from Rural Uganda [PDF]
Mughanda Mugheni Olive,1 Kusemererwa Byaruhanga,1 Nsimire Mulanga Roseline,1 Thomas Kwesiga,1 Ernest Badako Mogonza,1 Bigabwa Baharanyi Dominique,1 Venance Emmanuel Mswelo,1 Hildah Kirabo Nlumansi,1 Charles Malisaba Posite2,3 1Department of Internal ...
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Assessment of serum thyroid hormone autoantibodies in the first trimester of gestation as predictors of postpartum thyroiditis [PDF]
Background: Measurement of serum thyroperoxidase autoantibodies (TPOAb) during gestation as a classical marker for the risk of postpartum thyroiditis (PPT) predicts PPT in 1/3 to 1/2 of women. Very few studies have measured serum thyroid hormone Ab (THAb)
Salvatore Benvenga +9 more
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Postpartum thyroiditis (PPT) is the occurrence, in the postpartum period, of transient hyperthyroidism and/or transient hypothyroidism, with most women returning to the euthyroid state by 1 year postpartum. The prevalence of PPT varies from 1.1 to 16.7%, with a mean prevalence of 7.5%.
, Lakdasa Premawardhana, A B Parkes
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