Graves’ disease following hypothyroidism due to Hashimoto’s thyroiditis in a black South African lady: a case report

Graves' disease and Hashimoto's thyroiditis are autoimmune thyroid disorders with distinct pathological and histopathological features. The conversion from Hashimoto's thyroiditis to Graves' disease has been rarely reported throughout the world with no reports in the African race...

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Autores principales: Ekpebegh, Chukwuma, Elmezughi, Khaled, Mtingi, Lungiswa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6620106/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31312298
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.32.186.18713
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author Ekpebegh, Chukwuma
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description Graves' disease and Hashimoto's thyroiditis are autoimmune thyroid disorders with distinct pathological and histopathological features. The conversion from Hashimoto's thyroiditis to Graves' disease has been rarely reported throughout the world with no reports in the African race to our knowledge. We here report an African lady who was initially diagnosed with primary hypothyroidism following Hashimoto's disease but later became thyrotoxic due to Graves' disease.
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spelling pubmed-66201062019-07-16 Graves’ disease following hypothyroidism due to Hashimoto’s thyroiditis in a black South African lady: a case report Ekpebegh, Chukwuma Elmezughi, Khaled Mtingi, Lungiswa Pan Afr Med J Case Report Graves' disease and Hashimoto's thyroiditis are autoimmune thyroid disorders with distinct pathological and histopathological features. The conversion from Hashimoto's thyroiditis to Graves' disease has been rarely reported throughout the world with no reports in the African race to our knowledge. We here report an African lady who was initially diagnosed with primary hypothyroidism following Hashimoto's disease but later became thyrotoxic due to Graves' disease. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2019-04-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6620106/ /pubmed/31312298 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.32.186.18713 Text en © Chukwuma Ekpebegh et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Graves’ disease following hypothyroidism due to Hashimoto’s thyroiditis in a black South African lady: a case report
title Graves’ disease following hypothyroidism due to Hashimoto’s thyroiditis in a black South African lady: a case report
title_full Graves’ disease following hypothyroidism due to Hashimoto’s thyroiditis in a black South African lady: a case report
title_fullStr Graves’ disease following hypothyroidism due to Hashimoto’s thyroiditis in a black South African lady: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Graves’ disease following hypothyroidism due to Hashimoto’s thyroiditis in a black South African lady: a case report
title_short Graves’ disease following hypothyroidism due to Hashimoto’s thyroiditis in a black South African lady: a case report
title_sort graves’ disease following hypothyroidism due to hashimoto’s thyroiditis in a black south african lady: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6620106/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31312298
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.32.186.18713
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