Indian Write-Ups
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Thyroid Dysfunction:Hormone Assays; What ? & When ? |
-Dr. Vaman Khadilkar Thyroid function study is an important tool to investigate a suspected thyroid pathology, but one needs to remember that, thyroid function is affected by age, pregnancy, iodine consumption and many non thyroidal illnesses and also by many drugs. |
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Thyroid Profile In Infertile Women And Menstrual Dysfunction |
- Usha R. Sharma, Chandrika Parmar It is only over past few years that dysfunctions of thyroid has been recoginsed as an entity in a wide variety of Gynecological disorders ranging from abnormal sexual development to menstrual disorders, anovulations, infertility and reproductive wastage when pregnancy is achieved. |
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Epidemiological Observations Of Thyroid Cancer |
- D. N. Rao Cancer as a disease has been well recognized in India since Vedic times but its magnitude and problems have only been identified since the beginning of the century. |
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Hypothyroidism |
| - Padma S Menon Physician, Source: Indian Journal Of Clinical Practice, Vol. 10, No. 7. The clinical and biochemical alteration resulting from deficient secretion of thyroid hormone is called hypothyroidism. The prevalence of hypothyroidism in literature is zero to four per 1000 in men and 3.3 to 20.5 per 1000 population1. It is more common in women. |
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Clinical Profile Of Hypothyroidism |
| - B. B. Samanta, Physician, S.E. Railway Polyclinic At : Motibagh, P.O. Bezobagh, Nagpur-440 004, Maharashtra Source: Indian Medical Gazette Hypothyroidism is the most common form of thyroid disorder and is a very commonly encountered problem in clinical practice. |
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Screening for Thyroid Dysfunction |
| - Shreerang Godbole, Uday Phadke Consultant Endocrinologists Institute for Treatment &Research in Diabetes and Endocrinology (INSTRIDE), Pune The importance of thyroid disorders is being increasingly recognized by general practitioners and physicians alike. A few points are noteworthy in this context. |
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