Thyroid News

Indigenous people of New Zealand are more than twice as likely as adults of European descent to have hypothyroidism after definitive treatment for Graves’ disease and three times more likely to have persistent thyrotoxicosis at 1 year after radioactive iodine therapy vs. white patients, according to findings published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society.

Adults with type 2 diabetes are more likely to develop cancer, particularly in the pancreas, thyroid, liver, lungs, stomach and colon, according to findings published in the Journal of Diabetes.

Endocrine Today has compiled a list of the top five news stories posted from the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists Scientific & Clinical Congress, held April 24-28, 2019, in Los Angeles.

Active surveillance of adults with papillary thyroid microcarcinoma may not only be a reasonable management option, but may also confer improved quality of life compared with lobectomy, according to findings published in Thyroid.

LOS ANGELES — Recently approved immune checkpoint inhibitor therapies are now increasingly used for a variety of cancers and other conditions, yet clinicians are only beginning to confront a range of endocrinopathies triggered by such treatments, including thyroid disease, pituitary disorders and insulin-dependent diabetes, according to a speaker here.

LOS ANGELES — In this video exclusive, Caroline Nguyen, MD, assistant professor of clinical medicine at Keck School of Medicine at USC, offers pearls for caring for pregnant women with thyroid cancer.

LOS ANGELES — Recombinant human parathyroid hormone 1-84 lowered oral calcium and calcitriol dosage over 6 years while achieving normal range levels for albumin-corrected serum calcium in adults being treated for hypoparathyroidism, according to data presented at the AACE Annual Scientific and Clinical Congress.

An experimental human monoclonal antibody dramatically reduced the most debilitating symptoms of Graves’ orbitopathy, including proptosis and double vision, giving new hope to patients that a treatment for thyroid eye disease may finally be within reach, according to a speaker at the AACE Annual Scientific and Clinical Congress.

LOS ANGELES — In patients with primary hyperparathyroidism, 18F-fluorocholine PET/CT identified more benign parathyroid tumors than high-resolution ultrasound and 99mTc-MIBI SPECT/CT imaging of the neck, according to results of a comparison study presented at the AACE Annual Scientific and Clinical Congress.

LOS ANGELES — In this video exclusive, Caroline Nguyen, MD, assistant professor of clinical medicine at Keck School of Medicine at USC, offers considerations for managing hyperthyroidism in pregnancy, in particular, associations of propylthiouracil with fetal malformations.