thyroid gland disorders 2019

Hossein Delshad  Endocrinologist

Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences

Thyroid Gland Disorders

• Simple goiter: IDD
• Autoimmune thyroid disease: Graves, Hashimoto
• Thyroid nodules: Solitary, Multinodular
• Thyroiditis: Silent, Sub-acute, Infectious, Postpartum
• Thyroid cancer: Primary, Metastatic

Thyrotoxicosis & Hyperthyroidism

• Thyrotoxicosis:  

     A clinical state that results from inappropriately high thyroid

    hormone action in tissues generally due  to  inappropriately

    high  tissue  thyroid hormone.

• Hyperthyroidism: 

     Is a form of thyrotoxicosis due to inappropriately high

     synthesis and secretion of thyroid hormone by the thyroid

     gland.