Med. praxi 2013; 10(8-9): 291-293

Inflammation of the thyroid gland

MUDr.Hana Šarapatková

Interní a endokrinologická ordinace, Olomouc

Thyroid disease affects about 6–8% of the population in the Czech Republic. The proportion of women and men is 4–6 : 1. Incidence of thyroid

disease is about 15–20% of women and about 10% of men at the age over 65 years. The important part of thyroid disease is inflammation –

an inhomogeneous group of diseases of different etiopathogenesis. All have inflammatory manifestation followed by function disorder.

According to the course of the disease we can distinguish acute, subacute and chronic thyroiditis. The chronic thyroiditis is frequently

ocured in practice. Chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis (as organ specific autoimmune diseases) is often associated with other autoimmune

diseases. This common occurrence of several autoimmune diseases is often called autoimmune polyorgan syndrome (APS). In practice,

besides the overlapping chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis with diabetes mellitus type I, we meet with celiac disease, vitiligo, inflammatory

bowel disease, pernicious anemia and systemic connective tissue diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, Bechterew's disease).

Keywords: thyroiditis, acute thyroiditis, chronic thyroiditis, subacute thyroiditis

Published: September 15, 2013  Show citation