Silent Thyroiditis in an Eleven-Year-Old Girl, Associated with Transient Increase in Serum IgM and Thyroid Hormone

An 11-year-old girl with silent thyroiditis associated with a transient increase in serum IgM and thyroid hormone is described. The levels of serum IgM decreased from 4.38g/L to 3.35g/L after 1.5 months at the same time as thyroid hormones returned to normal. An unidentified antecedent infection or...

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Published inEndocrinologia Japonica Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 219 - 222
Main Authors MASUNO, MITSUO, KOSAKA, JOJI, NAKAMURA, SHIGENORI
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Tokyo The Japan Endocrine Society 1991
Japan Endocrine Society
Subjects
Antibodies, Viral - analysis
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Endocrinopathies
Female
Humans
Immunoglobulin M - blood
Medical sciences
Non tumoral diseases. Target tissue resistance. Benign neoplasms
Thyroid Hormones - blood
Thyroid. Thyroid axis (diseases)
Thyroiditis - diagnosis
Thyroiditis - immunology
Thyroiditis - metabolism
Thyrotropin - blood
Triiodothyronine - blood
Human
Case study
Thyroiditis
Immunoglobulins
Thyroid diseases
Thyroid hormone
Child
IgM
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Summary:An 11-year-old girl with silent thyroiditis associated with a transient increase in serum IgM and thyroid hormone is described. The levels of serum IgM decreased from 4.38g/L to 3.35g/L after 1.5 months at the same time as thyroid hormones returned to normal. An unidentified antecedent infection or exposure to antigen causing the increase in serum IgM might have triggered the occurrence of silent thyroiditis in this patient, although a search for viral antibodies revealed no significant titer changes during the course of the disease.
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ISSN:0013-7219
2185-6370
DOI:10.1507/endocrj1954.38.219