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Thyroidectomy
Mayo Clinic — Thyroidectomy - Overview covers definition, risks, results of this procedure to treat thyroid disorders. Thyroidectomy is the removal of all or part of your thyroid gland. Your thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland located at the base of your neck. ...More…
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Thyroid Disorders Are More Common than You Think
Office of Minority Health — There was a time when Joan Shey didn't pay attention to the small butterfly-shaped gland at the base of her neck. "I had no knowledge about the thyroid. I didn't even understand where the thyroid was and what the thyroid was - and I never ...More…
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Ask The Expert
Inteli Health — Howard LeWine, M.D., is chief editor of Internet Publishing, Harvard Health Publications. He is a clinical instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. LeWine has been a primary care internist and teacher ...More…
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Maternal Thyroid Disease as a Risk Factor for ...
Centers for Disease Control — Maternal Thyroid Disease as a Risk Factor for Craniosynostosis Thyroid disease is the second most common hormone disorder affecting women of childbearing age. Both overactive thyroid, most often the result of Graves disease, and underactive ...More…
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Thyroid.org: Thyroid Disease in the Older Patient
What do the following patients over the age of 60 years have in common? A 72 year old grandmother with "fluttering of the heart" and vague chest discomfort on climbing stairs; An 80 year old man with severe constipation who falls asleep during ...More…
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Thyroid.org: Thyroid Disease and Pregnancy Brochure
For the first 10-12 weeks of pregnancy, the baby is completely dependent on the mother for the production of thyroid hormone. By the end of the first trimester, the baby's thyroid begins to produce thyroid hormone on its own. The baby, however, ...More…
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Thyroid.org: Postpartum Thyroiditis Brochure
Brochure); thus, postpartum thyroiditis is thyroiditis that occurs in women after the delivery of a baby. Thyroiditis can cause both thyrotoxicosis (high thyroid hormone levels in the blood) and hypothyroidism (low thyroid hormone levels in the ...More…
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Thyroid.org: Childhood Head & Neck Irradiation Brochure
What is the concern about the thyroid gland and radiation? The thyroid gland can be affected by exposure to radiation. The thyroid glands of children are especially sensitive to radiation, much more so than the thyroid gland of an adult. ...More…
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Thyroid.org: Thyroid and Weight Brochure
It has been appreciated for a very long time that there is a complex relationship between thyroid disease, body weight and metabolism. Thyroid hormone regulates metabolism in both animals and humans. Metabolism is determined by measuring the ...More…
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Thyroid.org: Iodine Deficiency
Iodine is an element that is needed for the production of thyroid hormone. The body does not make iodine, so it is an essential part of your diet. Iodine is found in various foods (see Table 1 below). If you do not have enough iodine in your ...More…
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Thyroid.org: Thyroiditis Brochure
There are no symptoms unique to thyroiditis. If the thyroiditis causes slow and chronic thyroid cell damage and destruction, leading to a fall in thyroid hormone levels in the blood, the symptoms would be those of hypothyroidism (see Thyroiditis ...More…
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Thyroid.org: Hypothyroidism Brochure
Hypothyroidism is an underactive thyroid gland. Hypothyroidism means that the thyroid gland can't make enough thyroid hormone to keep the body running normally. People are hypothyroid if they have too little thyroid hormone in the blood. Common ...More…