Thyroid News

AUSTIN, Texas — Patients with cancer treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors are at risk for developing pituitary, thyroid and glucose metabolism dysfunctions, according to a speaker.

AUSTIN, Texas — Medical management may be appropriate for adults aged 80 years and older with primary hyperparathyroidism due to lower 24-hour urine calcium levels, higher vitamin D levels and lower prevalence of nephrolithiasis compared with younger patients.

AUSTIN, Texas — Adults with thyrotoxicosis also diagnosed with thyroid storm have a longer in-hospital stay, in-hospital mortality rate and higher admission costs compared with adults with thyrotoxicosis without thyroid storm.

Teprotumumab may be an effective therapeutic strategy to inhibit the insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor and reduce proptosis in patients with thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy, according to a study.

Recurrences after remission of papillary thyroid cancer in adults vary by time course, patient age and area of the recurrence, according to findings published in Thyroid.

The American Thyroid Association recently issued seven grants to researchers, according to an association press release.

Chinese adults with differentiated thyroid carcinoma can be effectively treated with low doses of radioiodine for thyroid remnant ablation, according to published findings, and low-dose radioiodine yielded results similar to those of higher doses of radioiodine.

Thyroid-stimulating hormone levels were associated with free thyroxine/triiodothyronine ratio among healthy, euthyroid adults, according to researchers in South Korea. They also reported that free thyroxine/triiodothyronine ratio, or FT3/FT4, was a better predictive marker for metabolic syndrome than TSH.

Adults who undergo thyroidectomy in France often receive suboptimal management before the procedure, and this may account for overdiagnosis and potential harms to patients, according to findings published in BMJ Open.

A 43-year-old woman was referred to the endocrine clinic for a thyroid nodule found on a CT scan of the chest during the evaluation of breast cancer.