Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Hashimoto thyroiditis(橋本氏甲狀腺炎)

症狀/併發症(symptom/complication)
gross
@hurthle cell will let thyroid  look brown
@goiter
@lymphocytic infiltration of thyroid gland
@Hypothyroidism(甲狀腺機能低下)
病因(etiology)
|autoimmune disease: T lymphocyte attack follicular cell
|chronic autoimmune thyroiditis
|genetic: HLA subtype
|antibody attack: anti-TSH antibodies, antithyroglobulin, antithyroid peroxidase antibodies
檢查/準則(examination/criteria)
histology
#hurthle cell: enlarged epithelial cells with abundant eosinophilic granular cytoplasm as a result of altered mitochondria
資料來源:日內瓦的醫學教育和研究基金會
#lymphocyte gathers and looks like germinal center

資料來源:pathologystudent
gross
#yellow
#Homogeneous

資料來源:薩卡特卡斯州自治大學
#thyroid ultrasound: looks like Graves' disease/Exophthalmic Goitre(突眼性甲狀腺腫), but only low blood flow
#fine-needle aspiration cytology, FNAC: exclude Graves' disease/Exophthalmic Goitre(突眼性甲狀腺腫)
#thyroid ultrasound: Diffusely enlarged thyroid gland, marked hyperemia

資料來源:ultrasound-images
治療(treatment)
$thyroxine and its analogue
$$1.6 mcg/kg body weight per day, but dose range dose is wide
$$start with full dose, but elder start at low dose
$$dose need to increase: pregnancy, weight gain, estrogen therapy
鑑別診斷(Differential Diagnosis)

流行病學(Epidemiology)
+Most common cause of hypothyroidism
+10% patients of Hypothyroidism(甲狀腺機能低下)
+female: male: 10~20:1
+age 45~65 years old

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