Late primary autoimmune hypothyroidism in a patient with postdelivery autoimmune hypopituitarism associated with antibodies to growth hormone and prolactin-secreting cells

Thyroid

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1037-1041

  De Bellis, Annamaria ^a   Colella, Caterina ^a   Bellastella, Giuseppe ^a   Lucci, Emma ^a   Sinisi, Antonio Agostino ^a   Bizzarro, Antonio ^a   Holdaway, Ian ^b  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b GREEN LANE HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; PROLACTIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; VASOPRESSIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE POLYENDOCRINE SYNDROME TYPE 3; BODY MASS; CASE REPORT; DEHYDRATION; DELIVERY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; FROZEN SECTION; GALACTORRHEA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOPHYSITIS; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LACTATION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE ADENOMATOSIS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; PROLACTIN SECRETING CELL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROTROPIN RELEASE;

ADULT; FEMALE; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LACTATION DISORDERS; PITUITARY DISEASES; PITUITARY GLAND; PREGNANCY; PROLACTIN;

EID: 84883061567     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: 15579077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2012.0482     Document Type: Article

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