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Also known as Hashimoto's disease, Hashimoto's thyroiditis is named after Japanese physician Hakaru Hashimoto (1881−1934) of the medical school at Kyushu University, [126] who first described the symptoms of persons with struma lymphomatosa, an intense infiltration of lymphocytes within the thyroid, in 1912 in the German journal called Archiv ...
Hashimoto's thyroiditis is also known as chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis, and patients with this disease often complain about difficulty swallowing. This condition may be so mild at first that the disease goes unnoticed for years. The first symptom that shows signs of Hashimoto's thyroiditis is a goiter on the front of the neck.
(It may also, rarely, be seen in Hashimoto's thyroiditis, primary hypothyroidism, and thyroid cancer). [19] About 20–25% of patients with Graves' disease will suffer from clinically obvious Graves' ophthalmopathy, and not just from the eye signs of hyperthyroidism. Only 3 to 5% will develop severe ophthalmopathy. [20]
Hashimoto’s is an autoimmune disorder that can cause hypothyroidism, or an under-active thyroid, according to the National Institute for Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).
Some symptoms Barry has experienced are atypical of Hashimoto’s, also known as chronic lymphocytic or autoimmune thyroiditis, so he and his family are apprehensive about what a scheduled biopsy ...
Although El Moussa was "in total shock" to learn she was diagnosed with Hashimoto's disease, it is a fairly common condition. Christina Hall also revealed her own Hashimoto's diagnosis in a 2020 ...
In mild disease, patients present with eyelid retraction. In fact, upper eyelid retraction is the most common ocular sign of Graves' orbitopathy. This finding is associated with lid lag on infraduction (Von Graefe's sign), eye globe lag on supraduction (Kocher's sign), a widened palpebral fissure during fixation (Dalrymple's sign) and an incapacity of closing the eyelids completely ...
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