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Dr.Badr Al-Sayed
Learning Objectives
To recognize the clinical features of hyperthyroidism To enumerate a reasonable deferential diagnosis To analyze essential laboratory finding To understand concept of treatment
Main Contents
Clinical Scenario
Sara is 22 year old college student presented to her family physician C/O: Palpitation Sweating For the last one month but get worse last week
Associated symptoms
Heat intolerance Fever Tremor Menstrual dysfunction (oligomenorrhea, amenorrhea) Increased appetite
Associated symptoms
Epidemiology
Hyperthyroidism affects 2% of women and 0.2% of men in their lifetimes Toxic multinodular goiter usually occurs in women >55 yr Graves disease usually occur in women 30-50 yr F:M is 7-10:1
P.Examination
Sinus tachycardia HR: 120/min BMI 23 Bilateral exophthalmos Moist hand Fine tremor Hyperreflexia
Thyroid Examination
Size Consistency (soft, firm or hard) Nodularity (MNG) Tenderness (subacute thyroiditis) Fixation (neoplastic) Bruit (hypervascularity) Lower border (retrosternal extension) LNE (part of neck exam.)
Definitions
Thyrotoxicosis: the state of thyroid hormone excess Hyperthyroidism: the result of excessive thyroid function Graves disease: autoimmune mediated, is caused by an activating autoantibody that targets the TSH receptor Thyroiditis: is an inflammatory process that causes follicular disruption and release of thyroglobulin and thyroid hormone
Extrathyroidal Manifestations
Graves disease
Ophthalmopathy
Infiltrative orbitopathy 20% to 40% of patients who have Graves' disease TRAb bind to TSH receptor antigen in retroorbital tissues Initiates subsequent T-cell inflammatory infiltrate Cytokines stimulate Fibroblasts to produce glycosaminoglycans (GAG) causing ophthalmopathy as a result of mass effect
Ophthalmopathy
Pretibial myxedema
Thyroid acropachy
Digital clubbing Soft tissue swelling of the hands and feet Periosteal bone formation 0.1% to 1% of patients with Graves' disease
Thyroid acropachy
Clinical Approach
DDx
Anxiety disorder Pheochromocytoma Metastatic neoplasm Diabetes mellitus Atrial fibrillation due to other causes Premenopausal state High estrogen states, eg, pregnancy (falsely increase serum thyroxine)
Etiology
Graves disease (diffuse toxic goiter): 80% to 90% of all cases of hyperthyroidism Toxic multinodular goiter (Plummers disease) Toxic adenoma Iatrogenic and factitious Transient hyperthyroidism (subacute thyroiditis, Hashimotos thyroiditis) Rare causes
Pathophysiology
Increased thyroid hormone production Release of stored thyroid hormone following injury to the thyroid gland (thyroiditis).
Increased RAIU
Diffuse toxic goiter (Graves' disease), Toxic multinodular goiter, Single toxic nodule (Plummer's disease) Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)-secreting tumor (rare) Hydatidiform mole (rare)
Subacute thyroiditis Excessive ingestion of medicinal thyroid hormone Struma ovarii Thyroid hormone-secreting metastatic thyroid cancer
Physiology
Physiology
Physiology
Biosynthesis
Biosynthesis
LABORATORY TESTS
Low TSH (unless hyperthyroidism is a result of the rare hypersecretion of TSH from a pituitary adenoma) Elevated free thyroxine (T4) Elevated free triiodothyronine (T3): generally not necessary for diagnosis Thyroid autoantibodies in Graves disease (absent toxic MNG)
Imaging
24-hr RAIU Increased uptake: overactive thyroid Normal or decreased uptake: iatrogenic thyroid ingestion, painless or subacute thyroiditis
Graves disease: increased homogeneous uptake Multinodular goiter: increased heterogeneous uptake Hot nodule: single focus of increased uptake
Graves disease
Multinodular goiter
Hot nodule
Treatment
ANTITHYROID DRUGS: Propylthiouracil (PTU) and methimazole (Tapazole) RADIOACTIVE IODINE (RAI; 131I) SURGICAL THERAPY: (subtotal thyroidectomy) ADJUNCTIVE THERAPY: (Propranolol)
F:M is 7-10:1 If your patient is clinically thyrotoxic, look for underlying pathology It has serous complications: AF, T.Storm Due to ignorance, some people are using Thyroxin in addition to lasix as Wt losing medications!!
Thanks
References
Endocrine Physiology, 3e Patricia E. Molina Harrison's Online,Chapter 335. Disorders of the Thyroid Gland J. Larry Jameson, Anthony P. Weetman Ferri: Ferri's Clinical Advisor 2011, 1st ed RadioGraphics journal