Resumo
Definition
History and exam
Key diagnostic factors
- dor cervical
- tireoide sensível à palpação, firme e aumentada
- febre
- palpitações
Other diagnostic factors
- infecção viral recente
- mialgia
- mal-estar
- tremor
- intolerância ao calor
Risk factors
- infecção viral
- alelo específico do antígeno leucocitário humano (HLA)
Diagnostic tests
1st tests to order
- hormônio estimulante da tireoide (TSH) sérico
- nível sérico de T4 total, T3 total, T3 livre, índice de T4 livre e T4 livre
- proporção T3:T4
- Hemograma completo
- proteína C-reativa sérica
- velocidade de hemossedimentação (VHS) sérica
- captação de iodo radioativo (RAIU)
Tests to consider
- biópsia por aspiração com agulha fina
- ultrassonografia
Treatment algorithm
fase de hipertireoidismo (tireotóxica)
fase hipotireoidiana
Contributors
Authors
Angela M. Leung, MD, MSc
Associate Professor of Medicine
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
Los Angeles
CA
Disclosures
AL declares that she has no competing interests.
Acknowledgements
Dr Angela M. Leung would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Stephanie L. Lee, the previous contributor to this topic.
Disclosures
SLL declares that she has no competing interests.
Peer reviewers
Tae-Hwa Chun, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
MI
Disclosures
TC declares that he has no competing interests.
Georg Hennemann, MD
Professor of Medicine and Endocrinology
Medical Center Spijkenisse
The Hague
The Netherlands
Disclosures
Not disclosed.
Peer reviewer acknowledgements
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References
Key articles
Nishihara E, Ohye H, Amino N, et al. Clinical characteristics of 852 patients with subacute thyroiditis before treatment. Intern Med. 2008;47(8):725-9. Abstract
Fatourechi V, Aniszewski JP, Fatourechi GZ, et al. Clinical features and outcome of subacute thyroiditis in an incidence cohort: Olmsted county, Minnesota, study. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2003 May;88(5):2100-5. Abstract
Stasiak M, Lewiński A. New aspects in the pathogenesis and management of subacute thyroiditis. Rev Endocr Metab Disord. 2021 Dec;22(4):1027-39.Full text Abstract
Ross DS, Burch HB, Cooper DS, et al. 2016 American Thyroid Association guidelines for diagnosis and management of hyperthyroidism and other causes of thyrotoxicosis. Thyroid. 2016 Oct;26(10):1343-421.Full text Abstract
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