OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the occurrence of cardiovascular disease and malignant tumors and the mortality rate in patients who received radioiodine treatment for hyperthyroidism due to Grave’s disease with at least ten years of follow-up. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The medical records of all patients who were treated with I131 for Graves’ disease at Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, were reviewed retrospectively, between January, 1981 and November, 1999. RESULTS: Data from 107 patients (14 men and […]

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate weight change during hyperthyroidism treatment, and to correlate it with IL-6 and TNF-alpha concentrations. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Forty two patients were included. Body weight (BW), body mass index (BMI), clinical and laboratory characteristics were recorded. IL-6 and TNF-alpha were determined before treatment with methimazole (MMI) and in euthyroidism. RESULTS: BW was 59.62 ± 11.5 kg in hyperthyroidism, and 69.91 ± 14.4 kg in euthyroidism (p < 0.001). BMI increased from 23.1 ± 3.8 kg/m2 to 27 kg/m2 […]

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to determine thyroid hormone (TH) profile in postmenopausal patients with breast cancer (BC). SUBJECTS AND METHODS: 12 CaM patients stages I or II, without interventions that could interfere with tumor progression were selected, as well as and a control group with 18 postmenopausal women without CaM. We measured serum anti-thyroperoxidase antibody (TPOAB), thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), free thyroxine (T4L), estradiol (E2), follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), and luteinizing hormone (LH), before and after surgery, besides immunohistochemistry […]

OBJECTIVE: To determine serum CPK variation based on TSH e free T4 (FT4), and to assess serum CPK in pathological states of the thyroid (hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism), in relation to the euthyroidism. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We evaluated retrospectively 6,230 laboratory results of TSH and CPK from 2007 to 2011. From these, 3,369 had free T4 results. We evaluated the correlation between CPK and TSH and the pathological states of the thyroid. RESULTS: The correlation between TSH and CPK was positive […]

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the functional and hemodynamic responses during exercise and its recovery in patients with subclinical hyperthyroidism (SCH). SUBJECTS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study was carried out with 29 patients on TSH-suppressive therapy with levothyroxine for thyroid carcinoma and 35 euthyroid subjects. All volunteers underwent a cardiopulmonary exercise testing on a treadmill and functional and hemodynamic variables were measured during exercise and its recovery. RESULTS: SCH patients showed impaired functional response to exercise, marked by lower values for oxygen […]

Brazilian legislation, since 1955, failed to achieve its objectives because the issue was not properly addressed: iodized salt was only available in endemic areas, at a low amount of 10 mg Iodine/kg salt. Lack of surveillance and cooperation were common errors. From 1982 to 1992, the INAN distributed potassium iodate to the industry free of charge, but it was abolished in 1991. Only four years later (1995) was a new law enacted effective in determining that all salt for human […]

Propylthiouracil (PTU), a thyonamide class drug commonly used to treat hyperthyroidism has been reported to cause adverse reactions in 3% to 12% of patients. The side effects have been described more frequently as mild, but ocasionally severe fatal reactions may occur. We report the case of a fourteen years old patient in use of PTU for the last three years who presented with fever, hemorrhagic blisters, necrotic ulcers, and that developed purpuric lesions and nodules in lower extremities. Laboratory and […]

OBJECTIVE: Evaluate whether the increase of iodine in the diet would be the triggering factor for auto-immune thyropathies in the city of Santo André, SP. METHODS: Urinary iodine was determined in samples isolated from 58 patients, divided in 4 Groups, and in 13 normal individuals (controls). RESULTS: Urinary Iodine: Group 1 – hyperthyroidism = 203.5±152.71 µg/ L(mean±sd); Group 2 – hypothyroidism = 258.31±148,2 µg/L; Group 3 – chronic auto-immune thyroiditis = 244.29±191.6 µg/L; group 4 (Amiodarone) = 1157.5±261.8 µg/L; Group […]

Pregnancy is associated with an increased requirement of hormone secretion by the thyroid, within the first weeks after conception. To this greater demand to occurs, pregnancy induces a series of physiological changes that affect thyroid function and, consequently, the tests of glandular function. For normal pregnant women living in areas with a sufficient supply of iodine, this challenge regarding the adjustment of thyroid hormone releases to this new state of equilibrium and its maintenance until the end of pregnancy it […]

The objective of this study was to verify if hyperthyroidism potentiates the osteopenia lactational. 24 adult female rats were distributed in four groups: euthyroid no lactating (control), euthyroid lactating, hyperthyroid no lactating and hyperthyroid lactating. 20 days after gestation, all the animals were necropsied. The thoracic and lumbar vertebrae, the femur and tibia were decalcified and processed for histomorphometric analysis. The euthyroid lactating group presented intense osteopenia in the studied bones. In the hyperthyroid no lactating group, there was not […]

INTRODUCTION: McCune-Albright syndrome is a sporadic disease clinicaly characterized by polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, “café-au-lait” cutaneous spots and hyperfunctional endocrinopathies, such as precocious puberty, hyperthyroidism, acromegaly and others. The biologic physiopathology of the disease is based on an activating mutation of the gene for the Gs protein which mediates the activation of adenyl cyclase and subsequent gland autonomous secretion. The thyroid gland is usually involved in this disease, being hyperthyroidism the second most common endocrinopathy seen after precocious puberty. OBJECTIVE: Revision […]

INTRODUCTION: Thyroid autoimmune diseases have been associated with a variety of rheumatologic diseases, including systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of thyroid autoimmune diseases in patients with SLE. METHODS: Transversal study to compare the prevalence of thyroid disorders in 106 patients with SLE and a control group of 102 patients. The patients were submitted to a clinical and a laboratorial evaluation; the tests included antiperoxidase and antithyroglobulin antibodies, TSH, free T4 and T3. RESULTS: We detected high […]