Vargas-Uricoechea, H.; Nogueira, J.P.; Pinzón-Fernández, M.V.; Schwarzstein, D. The Usefulness of Thyroid Antibodies in the Diagnostic Approach to Autoimmune Thyroid Disease. Antibodies2023, 12, 48.
Vargas-Uricoechea, H.; Nogueira, J.P.; Pinzón-Fernández, M.V.; Schwarzstein, D. The Usefulness of Thyroid Antibodies in the Diagnostic Approach to Autoimmune Thyroid Disease. Antibodies 2023, 12, 48.
Vargas-Uricoechea, H.; Nogueira, J.P.; Pinzón-Fernández, M.V.; Schwarzstein, D. The Usefulness of Thyroid Antibodies in the Diagnostic Approach to Autoimmune Thyroid Disease. Antibodies2023, 12, 48.
Vargas-Uricoechea, H.; Nogueira, J.P.; Pinzón-Fernández, M.V.; Schwarzstein, D. The Usefulness of Thyroid Antibodies in the Diagnostic Approach to Autoimmune Thyroid Disease. Antibodies 2023, 12, 48.
Abstract
Autoimmune thyroid disease refers to a spectrum of various diseases, with two extremes of clinical presentation, hypo-thyroidism (Hashimoto's thyroiditis), and hyperthyroidism (Graves-Basedow disease). Both conditions are character-ized by presenting a cellular and humoral autoimmune reaction, with an increase in the synthesis and secretion of an-tibodies directed towards various thyroid antigens, together with a phenomenon of thyrocyte necrosis and apoptosis (in Hashimoto's thyroiditis) and a persistent thyrotropin-receptor stimulation (in Graves-Basedow disease). The diagnosis of both entities is based on the clinical, laboratory and imaging findings.
In this review, the usefulness of thyroid antibodies in the diagnostic approach to autoimmune thyroid disease is de-scribed.
Medicine and Pharmacology, Endocrinology and Metabolism
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