Thyroid Research Thyroid Research Archive Hypothyroidism

Hypothyroidism

March 2004

• Thyroxine plus triiodothyronine and thyroxine alone have similar efficacy in hypothyroid patients who have depressive symptoms

• Thyroxine plus triiodothyronine and thyroxine alone have similar efficacy in patients with hypothyroidism

• Thyroxine alone is as effective as triiodothyronine plus thyroxine in improving symptoms and cognitive function in hypothyroid patients

November 2003

1. Hypothyroidism may be increased in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection

2. The success rate of in vitro fertilization of oocytes is reduced in women with high serum thyrotropin values

July 2003

• Serum C-reactive protein and homocysteine concentrations are increased in women with hypothyroidism

• Thyroxine therapy increases the pregnancy rate in women with mild thyroid hypofunction

March 2003

• Children with brain tumors may have hypothyroidism and other endocrine problems after treatment

• Hyperprolactinemia is rare and of minor clinical importance in patients with hypothyroidism

• Adequately treated patients with hypothyroidism feel less well than other patients

• Higher mortality after coronary-artery surgery in women treated with thyroxine than other women

November 2002

• Some patients with subclinical hypothyroidism have mutations in the gene for the thyrotropin receptor

• The severity of hypothyroidism is most likely to increase in patients with high serum thyrotropin values

• Patients with hypothyroidism may have high serum concentrations of several enzymes

• Thyroxine inhibits thyrotropin secretion in patients with pituitary disease

July 2002

• Thyroxine alone may reverse hypertension in some patients with hypothyroidism

• Lack of benefit of thyroxine in patients with mild subclinical hypothyroidism

• Hypothyroidism caused by thalidomide in patients with multiple myeloma

• Risk of hip fracture is not increased in women treated with thyroxine

• Hypothyroid patients with severe kidney disease need less thyroxine after renal transplantation

March 2002

• Thyroxine therapy does not improve well-being or cognitive function in patients with symptoms of hypothyroidism but normal thyroid function

• Radiation therapy can cause hypothyroidism in patients with head and neck cancer

• Central hypothyroidism is common in patients with hypopituitarism

Archive of Thyroid Research

• Autoimmune Thyroid Disease
• Congenital Hypothyroidism
• Drug Effects on Thyroid Function
• Graves' Disease
• Graves’ Ophthalmopathy
• Hyperthyroidism
• Hypothyroidism
• Iodine Deficiency
• Nodular Goiter
• Nonthyroidal Illness
• Postpartum Thyroid Disease
• Thyroid Cancer
• Thyroid Development
• Thyroid Diagnosis
• Thyroid Disease
• Thyroid Function in Pregnancy
• Hormone Action
• Hormone Secretion
• Hormone Therapy
• Thyroid Surgery
• Thyroiditis