Clinical Thyroidology January 2012 Volume 24 Issue 1

CLINICAL THYROIDOLOGY

January 2012
VOLUME 24 ISSUE 1

Editor: Jerome M. Hershman, MD

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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• Editorial: Reflecting on the Past Year

• IQ scores of children evaluated between ages 4 and 14.5 years born to women with subclinical hypothyroidism were similar to the IQs of children born to euthyroid treated women

• Prolonged therapy with carbimazole leads to a 50% remission rate for Graves’ Disease in children

• Two commonly available “third generation” assays for antibodies to the TSH receptor (TSHR) are similar in sensitivity and specificity, but differ in their response to sera containing TSHR-blocking IgGs

• Can we measure early cardiac dysfunction in patients with tsh suppression?

• Postpartum Psychosis is more prevalent in women with autoimmune thyroid disease

• Elastography is not clinically useful for diagnosis of malignancy in cytologically indeterminate thyroid nodules

• Use of radioiodine ablation for thyroid cancer has increased and varies inexplicably among hospitals

Call for Proposals – American Thyroid Association (ATA) Research Grants — Deadline: January 31, 2012

Registration Opening in 2012 – American Thyroid Association 82nd Annual Meeting

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CLINICAL THYROIDOLOGY, published online monthly, is a broad-ranging look at the clinical and preclinical thyroid literature. The Editor searches the world literature for excellent thyroid studies and then summarizes them and provides expert commentary. Please send editorial questions to Dr. Hershman at clinicalthyroidology@thyroid.org.

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