Clinical features and pathogenesis of thyrotoxicosis in adult Melanesians in Papua New Guinea
| Autor: | D Linge, S H Sengupta, Peter G. Colman, B Tait, V P Michelangeli, K Ongugu, G Pawape, A Sinha |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
| Předmět: |
endocrine system
medicine.medical_specialty endocrine system diseases Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism Graves' disease medicine.medical_treatment Population Thyroid function tests Endocrinology Thyroid peroxidase Internal medicine medicine education education.field_of_study medicine.diagnostic_test biology business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Thyroid medicine.disease medicine.anatomical_structure biology.protein Thyroglobulin Age of onset business |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Endocrinology. 52:261-266 |
| ISSN: | 0300-0664 |
| DOI: | 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2000.00906.x |
| Popis: | OBJECTIVE To investigate the cause of an apparent increase in the incidence of thyrotoxicosis in the Melanesian population of the coastal areas around Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. DESIGN Consecutive patients attending the thyroid clinic at Port Moresby General Hospital were included in the study which collected clinical and immunogenetic data. PATIENTS One hundred and ninety-four patients with thyrotoxicosis were studied. The mean age was 31 years. The clinical features were typical for thyrotoxicosis apart from increased pigmentation, which occurred in the majority of patients and which reversed with treatment with antithyroid drugs and resolution of the thyrotoxicosis. MEASUREMENTS Antibodies to thyroid peroxidase, thyroglobulin and the thyrotropin receptor were present in 99%, 52% and 69% of patients, respectively, confirming that all cases were caused by autoimmune thyroid disease. Fine needle aspirations in 42 of 43 patients were consistent with Graves' disease. CONCLUSIONS The cause of this apparent sudden increase in Graves' disease in the coastal region around Port Moresby, an apparently iodine-replete area, remains unexplained. |
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