Clinical Thyroidology for the Public summarizes selected research studies discussed in the previous month’s issue of Clinical Thyroidology, an official publication of the American Thyroid Association.
Editor-in-chief, Alan Farwell, MD
Volume 7 Issue 8
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GRAVES’ DISEASE Selenium deficiency and Graves’ eye disease
Khong JJ et al. Serum selenium status in Graves’ disease with and without orbitopathy: a case-control study. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 2014:80:905-910. Epub January 30, 2014.
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HYPERTHYROIDISM Hyperthyroidism is associated with hypertension, coronary artery disease and heart failure, even 20 years after treatment with thyroid surgery
Ryödi E et al Cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in surgically treated hyperthyroidism—a nation-wide cohort study with a long-term follow-up. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 2014;80:743-50.
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HYPOTHYROIDISM Hypothyroidism reduces the volume of the hippocampus, a critical site for memory
Cooke GE et al. Hippocampal volume is decreased in adults with hypothyroidism Thyroid 2014;24:433-40.
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THYROID CANCER The intraoperative detection of nodal metastases from papillary thyroid cancer is poor and is not impacted by a surgeon’s level of training
Scherl S et al, The effect of surgeon experience on the detection of metastatic lymph nodes in the central compartment and the pathologic features of clinically unapparent metastatic lymph nodes: what are we missing when we don’t perform a prophylactic dissection of central compartment nodes in papillary thyroid cancer? Thyroid. April 30, 2014.
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THYROID CANCER Patients with poorly differentiated thyroid cancer die from distant spread of the tumor
Ibrahimpasic T et al Outcomes in patients with poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2014;99:1245-52.
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