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Thyroiditis represents a group of conditions that cause inflammation of your thyroid gland. Hashimoto's thyroiditis is the most common type. Some cases of thyroiditis are temporary and others cause permanent hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid). It’s treatable.
Thyroiditis is caused by an attack on the thyroid, causing inflammation and damage to the thyroid cells. Antibodies that attack the thyroid cause most types of thyroiditis. As such, thyroiditis is often an autoimmune disease, like juvenile (type 1) diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.
Thyroiditis is an umbrella term for a number of disorders that cause thyroid inflammation but are nevertheless unique in their symptoms and etiology. Thyroiditis may occur because of an autoimmune process, infection, medication, or pregnancy.
Thyroiditis is an inflammation of the thyroid, the gland that regulates your body’s metabolism. Here’s what you should know about this condition.
Hashimoto's disease is also known as Hashimoto's thyroiditis, chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis and chronic autoimmune thyroiditis.
Thyroiditis is a group of disorders that all cause thyroidal inflammation. Forms of the disease are Hashimoto's thyroiditis, the most common cause of hypothyroidism in the US, postpartum thyroiditis, subacute thyroiditis, silent thyroiditis, drug-induced thyroiditis, radiation-induced thyroiditis, acute thyroiditis, Riedel's thyroiditis. [8]
Thyroiditis is a general term for inflammation of the thyroid gland. The most common forms of thyroiditis encountered by family physicians include Hashimoto, postpartum, and subacute....
Thyroiditis can be caused by several clinical disorders that present in different ways and require different courses of treatment, ranging from medication to surgery. The most common types of thyroiditis include Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, postpartum thyroiditis and De Quervain’s thyroiditis.
Thyroiditis refers to an inflammation of the thyroid gland, which produces key hormones. Possible causes range from a bacterial infection to an autoimmune disease.
The term thyroiditis reflects inflammation of the thyroid gland. Thyroiditis can be classified based on the onset of symptoms, underlying etiology, and clinical symptoms. The most common cause of thyroiditis is an autoimmune disease. In the United States, Hashimoto thyroiditis is the most common cause of hypothyroidism. [1]