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Thyroid dysfunction in patients with rheumatoid arthritis /

Basma Mohammed Medhat Ali Mohammed

Thyroid dysfunction in patients with rheumatoid arthritis / تأثر الغدة الدرقية فى مرضى الروماتويد المفصلى Basma Mohammed Medhat Ali Mohammed ; Supervised Hanan Ahmed Kotb Abdallah , Noha Mohammed Hosny Shahin , Sherine Aly Abdelmoniem Elmofty - Cairo : Basma Mohammed Medhat Ali Mohammed , 2011 - 166P. : charts , facsimiles ; 25cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation

The aim of this work was to detect the relationship between Rheumatoid arthritis and thyroid dysfunction in the form of thyroid dysfunction and / or thyroid autoimmune disease . Eighty consecutive patients diagnosed with Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) according to the revised American College of Rheumatology criteria of 1988 , attending the outpatient clinic of the Rheumatology and Rehabilitation Department were included in this study



Antithyroid peroxidase Rheumatoid arthritis Thyroid dysfunction