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Investigation of autoimmune diseases accompanying Hashimoto’s thyroiditis in children and adolescents and evaluation of cardiac signs

  • Veysel Nijat Baş EMAIL logo , Sebahat Yılmaz Agladioglu , Senem Özgür , Selmin Karademir and Zehra Aycan
Published/Copyright: May 29, 2015
Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism
From the journal Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism Volume 28 Issue 7-8

Abstract

Objective: In the present study, it was aimed to investigate the concomitance of additional cardiac problems, mainly mitral valve prolapse, in adolescents and pediatric patients with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, by screening autoimmune markers.

Materials and methods: Fifty-seven euthyroid patients, who applied to the Pediatric Endocrinology clinic at our institution with marked symptoms of hypothyroidism at the time of diagnosis, and were diagnosed and treated for Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, were included in the present study. All patients were evaluated by performing non-organ specific autoantibodies which could be tested at our institution, thyroid ultrasonography, two-dimensional echocardiography, and 24-h holter monitorization.

Results: Of the 57 cases with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, 48 (84.2%) were female, and nine (15.8%) were male. In the echocardiographic evaluation, mitral valve problems were detected in 10 (17.5%) of all cases; mitral valve prolapse was diagnosed in eight (seven females and one male) cases, and mitral insufficiency was diagnosed in two female cases. First-degree atrioventricular block was observed in only two patients during 24-h holter monitorization. Different non-organ specific autoantibody positivity was distributed as antinuclear antibody in 15 (26.3%) cases, anticardiolipin IgG in two cases, anticardiolipin IgM in three cases, tissue transglutaminase IgA in one, glutamic acid decarboxylase in one, anti-insulin antibody in four cases, antiphospholipid IgG in one, and antiphospholipid IgM in one case.

Conclusion: It should be underlined that patients with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis should to be followed up closely for mitral valve prolapse and accompanying autoimmune diseases.

Keywords: autoimmunity; Hashimoto’s thyroiditis; mitral valve prolapse
Corresponding author: Veysel Nijat Baş, MD, Clinics of Pediatric Endocrinology, Dr. Sami Ulus Research and Training Hospital of Women’s and Children’s Health and Diseases, Ankara, Turkey, Phone: +90-312-305-65-08, Fax: +90-312-317-03-53, E-mail:

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the nurses and workers in our Clinics of Pediatric Endocrinology who helped us during this work.

Financial support: None.

Conflict of interest: None.

Ethical standards: The study was approved by the institutional ethics committee.

All of the authors have read and approved the paper and the manuscript has not been published previously nor it is under consideration by any other peer-reviewed journal.

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Received: 2014-9-1
Accepted: 2015-4-10
Published Online: 2015-5-29
Published in Print: 2015-7-1

©2015 by De Gruyter

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https://doi.org/10.1515/jpem-2014-0373
Keywords for this article
autoimmunity; Hashimoto’s thyroiditis; mitral valve prolapse

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