American Thyroid Association

Endocrine Today has compiled a list of the top five thyroid stories posted online to come from the Annual Meeting of the American Thyroid Association in Denver.

DENVER — In this video exclusive, Tim Korevaar, MD, MSc, a PhD student at Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands, discusses a consortium began with Erasmus University Medical Center and Cardiff University that aims to combine all of the data sets available on thyroid and pregnancy.

DENVER — In this video exclusive, Megan R. Haymart, MD, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, discusses assumptions, approaches and misconceptions about imaging surveillance after initial treatment for thyroid cancer.

DENVER — Thyroxine requirements in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis are similar for patients with normal weight or overweight, study data show.

DENVER — The presence of thyroid peroxidase antibodies during pregnancy may affect thyroid function, but no recommended cut-off ranges to identify thyroid peroxidase antibody–positive women are currently available.

DENVER — Yuri Nikiforov, MD, PhD, professor of pathology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, dicsusses a new entity in thyroid pathology — noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasm.

DENVER — The risk for prematurity in offspring is increased with maternal serum thyrotropin levels above the trimester-specific ranges during pregnancy, according to a presenter here.

DENVER — In this video exclusive, Gregory W. Randolph, MD, FACS, FACE, the Claire and John Bertucci Endowed Chair in Thyroid Surgical Oncology at Harvard Medical School and President of the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, discusses his presentation on the surgical approaches to low-risk thyroid cancer.

DENVER — Most thyroid nodules identified as benign with a gene expression classifier, or GEC, remain benign and do not undergo surgical removal, according to findings presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Thyroid Association.

DENVER — Surgeons differ in strategies to prevent and manage post-thyroidectomy hypocalcemia, according to findings presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Thyroid Association.