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Thyroid Dysfunction & Rheumatological Disease : is there a link or Association /

Nahla Emad Eldin Abdelaziz

Thyroid Dysfunction & Rheumatological Disease : is there a link or Association / العلاقة بين أمراض اختلال الغدة الدرقية والأمراض الروماتيزمية Nahla Emad Eldin Abdelaziz ; Supervised Hala Ibrahim Elgendy , Khaled Alsayed Alhadidy , Hala Gabr Metwaly - Cairo : Nahla Emad Eldin Abdelaziz , 2014 - 125 P. ; 25cm

Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Internal Medicine

Autoimmune thyroid disease (ATD) is a multifactorial, genetic disease(ATD). Abnormalities in thyroid function and thyroid autoantibodies have been frequently described in patients with some rheumatological diseases as systemic lupus erythrematosus (SLE). Autoimmune route is one of the links between thyroid dysfunction &rheumatological diseases.The recurrent study included 20 patientswithrheumatological diseases, 20 subjects with thyroid diseases & 20 subjects as a control group who were undergone measuring the levels of ANA, AdsNA, Anti thyroid peroxidase (TPO)& Anti thyroglobulin (TG) for evaluationthe relation betweenautoimmunethyroiddiseases& connective tissue diseases



Anti thyroid peroxidase (TPO) & Anti thyroglobulin (TG) Autoimmune thyroid diseases (ATD) Connective tissue diseases