Thyroid-related causes Systemic causes Hashimoto’s thyroiditis Diabetes mellitus Iodine deficiency Celiac disease Overtreatment of Graves’ disease Chronic renal failure Transient neonatal hyperthyrotropinemia Syndromes (Turner, Down …) Variations in genes of…
Fig. 1.1 Early stage of mammalian development. Panel a: Schematic cross-section of a mammalian embryo after gastrulation. The position of three germ layers, ectoderm (brown), mesoderm (orange), and endoderm (green)…
Constitutional and environmental factors Clinical factors Female sex Antecedents of Graves’ disease Adolescent age Association with extra-thyroidal autoimmune diseases Familiarity for thyroid diseases Iodine status alterations Association with Turner syndrome…
CH incidence Québec, Canada Milan, Italy Albert, NZa Castanet, France Period 1990–2009 1993–2010 1980–1998 TSH threshold (mU/L) 15- 15 15–5 20 12–10 15 Variable over time Global 1: 2,900 1:…
Fig. 11.1 The figure displays the mean (full line), the -2 SDS and +2 SDS (dotted lines) L-T4 requirement in 216 CH patients diagnosed with neonatal screening from 6 months…
CH etiology Associated mutations TSH T3 and T4 A. Primary CH Thyroid dysgenesis PAX8 high low TTF2 NKX2.1 NKX2.5 Thyroid dyshormonogenesis NIS/SLC5A5 high low TPO DUOX2, DUOXA2 Tg DEHAL1/SECISBP2 SLC26A4 …
Congenital goiters Dyshormonogenesis Iodine trapping defect (NIS-gene mutation) Iodine organification defects (TPO, DUOX.DUOX2 gene muattions) Pendred syndrome Thyroglobulin biosynthesis defects Iodotyrosine deiodinase defects (DEHAL1-gene mutation) Activating mutations of the TSH-receptor…
20. The American Thyroid Association Taskforce on Thyroid Disease During Pregnancy and Ostpartum, Stagnaro-Green A, Abalovich M, Alexander E, et al (2011) Guidelines of the American Thyroid Association for the…
Developmental stage Gestational weeks Thyroid gland organogenesis Pre-colloid 7–13 Colloid 13–14 Follicular >14 TRH in hypothalamus 10–12 TSH in anterior pituitary gland and circulation 10–12 TSH receptor in thyroid gland…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Gianni Bona, Filippo De Luca and Alice Monzani (eds.)Thyroid Diseases in Childhood10.1007/978-3-319-19213-0_18 18. Hyperthyroidism Giorgio Radetti1 and Federico Baronio2 (1) Department of Paediatrics, General Hospital of Bolzano, Via Lorenz Boehler 5, Bolzano, 39018,…
