Thyroid News

Scientists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin have invented a handheld device called the MasSpec Pen designed to rapidly and accurately identifies cancerous tissue during surgery.

Patients with Graves’ disease who were switched from treatment with thionamides to potassium iodide therapy had better outcomes when they had lower, compared with higher, levels of free triiodothyronine and free thyroxine on the day of the switch, according to researchers from Japan.

Endocrine Today has compiled a list of the top five thyroid news reports posted in 2017.

Dabrafenib plus trametinib produced significant clinical activity among patients with BRAF V600E-mutated anaplastic thyroid cancer, marking an advancement in treating the disease, study data showed.

Researchers analyzing the first round of thyroid survey data after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident observed both age- and sex-dependent differences in the detection rates of thyroid cysts, nodules and cancer in children, with nearly twice as many girls diagnosed with cytologically suspected cancers vs. boys, according to published findings.

Women with unexplained infertility are nearly twice as likely to have high-normal thyroid-stimulating hormone levels compared with women with a normal fertility evaluation, according to findings published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

Adults who underwent Roux-en-Y gastric bypass who were also vitamin D deficient had an increased risk for secondary hyperparathyroidism 2 years after surgery compared with those who had sufficient vitamin D levels, according to study findings published in Clinical Endocrinology.

Adults diagnosed with thyroid cancer have increased risks for circulatory conditions, diabetes, disorders of lipid metabolism, eye disorders and heart disease compared with adults who were never diagnosed with thyroid cancer, study data show.

Children born to mothers with rheumatoid arthritis have an increased risk for chronic diseases, including thyroid disease, epilepsy and rheumatoid arthritis, during childhood and adolescence, according to findings published in Arthritis Care and Research.

Miscarriage, intrauterine pregnancy and live-birth rates were not affected with levothyroxine treatment in women who were antithyroperoxidase-antibody positive and undergoing in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer, according to findings published in JAMA.