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Hipotireoidismo primário

Last reviewed: 12 Aug 2025
Last updated: 25 Apr 2025

Summary

Definition

History and exam

Key diagnostic factors

  • presença de fatores de risco
  • sintomas inespecíficos
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Other diagnostic factors

  • letargia
  • constipação
  • ganho de peso
  • depressão
  • irregularidade menstrual
  • pele seca ou áspera
  • mudança na voz
  • bradicardia
  • hipertensão
  • retardo do relaxamento dos reflexos tendinosos
  • sensibilidade ao frio
  • cabelo grosso
  • edema palpebral
  • bócio
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Risk factors

  • deficiência de iodo
  • sexo feminino
  • meia-idade
  • história familiar de tireoidite autoimune
  • doenças autoimunes
  • tratamento para doença tireoidiana
  • tireoidite pós-parto
  • Síndromes de Turner e de Down
  • diabetes do tipo 1
  • radioterapia de cabeça e pescoço
  • doença infiltrante
  • excesso de iodo
  • exposição a pesticidas
  • uso da amiodarona
  • uso de lítio
  • laringectomia
  • tratamento para tuberculose (TB) resistente a múltiplos medicamentos
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Diagnostic tests

1st tests to order

  • hormônio estimulante da tireoide (TSH) sérico
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Tests to consider

  • tiroxina livre sérica (T4)
  • anticorpos antitireoperoxidase (anti-TPOAbs)
  • Hemograma completo
  • glicemia de jejum
  • colesterol sérico
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Treatment algorithm

ONGOING

hipotireoidismo primário evidente confirmado

hipotireoidismo subclínico

Contributors

Authors

Wail Malaty, MD

Adjunct Clinical Professor

Department of Family Medicine

University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill

NC

Disclosures

WM declares that he has no competing interests.

Peer reviewers

Sun Y. Lee, MD, MSc

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Boston University School of Medicine

Boston

MA

Disclosures

SYL declares that she has no competing interests.

Salman Razvi, MD, FRCP

Consultant Endocrinologist

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Gateshead

UK

Disclosures

SR declares that he has no competing interests.

Lakdasa Premawardhana, MBBS, FRCP, FRCPE

Consultant Physician

Caerphilly Miners' Hospital

Caerphilly

UK

Disclosures

LP declares that he has no competing interests.

Birte Nygaard, MD, PhD

Associated Professor

Consultant Endocrinologist

Herlev Hospital

University of Copenhagen

Denmark

Disclosures

BN declares that she has no competing interests.

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Key articles

Taylor PN, Medici MM, Hubalewska-Dydejczyk A, et al. Hypothyroidism. Lancet. 2024 Oct 5;404(10460):1347-64. Abstract

Alexander EK, Pearce EN, Brent GA, et al. 2017 guidelines of the American Thyroid Association for the diagnosis and management of thyroid disease during pregnancy and the postpartum. Thyroid. 2017 Mar;27(3):315-89.Full text  Abstract

American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists; American Thyroid Association. Clinical practice guidelines for hypothyroidism in adults: cosponsored by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and the American Thyroid Association. Endocr Pract. 2012 Nov-Dec;18(6):988-1028.Full text  Abstract

Jonklaas J, Bianco AC, Bauer AJ, et al. Guidelines for the treatment of hypothyroidism: prepared by the American Thyroid Association Task Force on Thyroid Hormone Replacement. Thyroid. 2014 Dec;24(12):1670-751.Full text  Abstract

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