Post-partum Transient Thyrotoxicosis

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Abstract
Two patients with post-partum transient thyrotoxicosis associated with painless thyroiditis and low radioactive I uptake were described. The surreptitious use of thyroid hormones or I was excluded. Although the clinical course was compatible with that of subacute thyroiditis, passing through the hyperthyroid, euthyroid, hypothyroid and recovery phase, the patients showed a sustained elevation of serum anti-thyroglobulin antibody titer during the entire phase of the disease. Moreover, the histological findings obtained by the thyroid biopsy performed in a case were characteristic of chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis. It was of interest that the disease recurred following every delivery in 2 cases, suggesting the possible role of immunological changes induced by pregnancy and delivery in the etiology of this disease.

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